Brief Rebuttal to Politis and Prates

ABSTRACT

This comment is a brief response to the opinion statement made by Politis and Prates in this issue of PaleoAmerica. Some of their errors and misunderstandings are corrected. We maintain that the psephites from Monte Verde-I and Chinchihuapi-I are allochthonous and cultural in origin.

KEYWORDS:

• Monte Verde
• Chinchihuapi
• allochthonous
• psephites
• exotics

Acknowledgements

We thank the editors of PaleoAmerica, especially Dr. Ted Goebel, for allotting us the space to discuss these issues.

Disclosure statement

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