Comments on Archaeological Remains at the Monte Verde Site Complex, Chile

ABSTRACT

In a review of the early archaeology of South America, Politis and Prates challenge certain data presented for some early sites. In the process, they misrepresent information presented by original investigators, including us for the Monte Verde and Chinchihuapi sites in Chile. We respond to their critique and correct several errors made by these authors.

KEYWORDS:

• Monte Verde
• Chinchihuapi
• radiocarbon
• Quaternary
• unifaces

Acknowledgements

We thank Michael B. Collins, Javier Soto, and Emanuel Sepulveda for reading portions of the manuscript.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes on contributors

Tom D. Dillehay has carried out five decades of archaeological and anthropological research in several Latin American and other countries. He directed the Monte Verde project.

Carlos Ocampo is an archaeologist who has worked extensively throughout Chile, but focused primarily in western Patagonia and the Chilean fjords.

Mario Pino is a geologist who has done interdisciplinary work at several late Pleistocene sites in Chile, Peru and Brazil.