Stephen Bodio's Querencia (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The NY Times has a piece today on seaweed quids that have been discovered at a 14,000 year old level at the site of Monte Verde in Chile. Monte Verde is about 50 miles from the coast, so this shows that there was travel to the coast or trade with people who lived there. Tom Dillehay, the lead researcher at the site, asserts that this discovery supports the coastal migration theory for the population...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Washington, May 11 (ANI): A new study has suggested that the peopling of the Americas was a much slower and deliberate process, rather than a blitzkrieg movement. Tom Dillehay, professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, led the study. Though evidence from an archaeological site in southern Chile confirms Monte Verde is the Americas earliest [...]
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
... it rose it would have inundated the remains of coastal settlements. A team led by anthropologist Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University reports on the new seaweed study from Monte Verde, Chile, in the journal Science. There is a continuous mountain chain along the western side of the Americas, Dillehay explained, with thousands of rivers and streams flowing down the mountains to the...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... to the south that people have presumed, but a much slower and more deliberate process,” says Tom Dillehay, professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., who led the study. The journal Science publishes a report on the findings by Dillehay and team of international scientists in its May 9 issue. “Monte Verde is an iconic site in New World archaeology and Americanist...
YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The sandy shore of the Chilean coast was 50 miles west of Monte Verde 14,000 calendar years ago. Early migrants are thought to have travelled to and from the ocean as well as inland for food prompting researchers to question how rapidly human migration in the Americas occurred. Credit: Tom Dillehay, Vanderbilt University May 8, 2008 - New evidence, more questions. That's the thumbnail of the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... to the south that people have presumed, but a much slower and more deliberate process," says Tom Dillehay, professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., who led the study.The journal Science publishes a report on the findings by Dillehay and team of international scientists in its May 9 issue."Monte Verde is an iconic site in New World archaeology and Americanist...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... about a dozen huts on a minor creek.About 20 to 30 people probably lived there, said archaeologist Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, who has been studying the site for 30 years.The seaweed samples were found throughout the site, Dillehay and his colleagues reported in the journal Science.
Tampa Bay Online (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Monte Verde, in what is now a peat bog about 500 miles south of Santiago and 10 miles from the coast, was a small village of about a dozen huts on a minor creek. About 20 to 30 people probably lived there, said archaeologist Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, who has been studying the site for 30 years.
Fox News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... as it rose it would have inundated the remains of coastal settlements.A team led by anthropologist Tom Dillehay of Vanderbilt University reports on the new seaweed study from Monte Verde, Chile, in Friday's edition of the journal Science.There is a continuous mountain chain along the western side of the Americas, Dillehay explained in a briefing, with thousands of rivers and streams...
