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Monte Verde, Chile: A Brief Bibliography

A Bibliography for the Monte Verde Site, Chile

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Seno de Reloncavi Marine Estuary, Chile

View of a rocky shoreline in the inland Seno de Reloncavi Marine Estuary south of Monte Verde.

Image courtesy of Mario Pino

Adovasio, J. M. and D. R. Pedler 1997 Monte Verde and the antiquity of humankind in the Americas. Antiquity 71:573-580.

Dillehay, Tom D. 1999 The Late Pleistocene cultures of South America. Evolutionary Anthropology 7(6):206-216.

Dillehay, Tom D. 1989 Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Dillehay, Tom D. and M. Collins 1988 Early cultural evidence from Monte Verde in Chile. Nature 332:150-152.

Dillehay, Tom D., et al. 2008 Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America. Science 320(5877):784-786.

Fiedel, Stuart J. 1999 Older than we thought: Implications of corrected dates for Paleoindians. American Antiquity 64(1):95-115.

Fiedel, Stuart J. 2000 The peopling of the new world: Present evidence, new theories, and future directions. Journal of Archaeological Research 8(1):39-103.

George, Debra, John Southern, and R. E. Taylor 2005 Resolving an Anomalous Radiocarbon Determination on Mastodon Bone from Monte Verde, Chile. American Antiquity 70(4):766-772.

Lynch, Thomas F. 2001 On the road again... Reflections on Monte Verde. Review of Archaeology 22(1):39-43.

Meltzer, David J. 1994 The discovery of deep time: A history of views on the peopling of the Americas. In Method and Theory for Investigating the Peopling of the Americas. Robson Bonnichsen and D. G. Steele, eds. Pp. 7-26. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University.

Meltzer, David J. 1997 Monte Verde and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas. Science 276(5313):754-755.

Meltzer, David J., et al. 1997 On the Pleistocene antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile. American Antiquity 62(4):69-663.

Moreno, Patricio I. 2000 Climate, Fire, and Vegetation between About 13,000 and 9200 14C yr B.P. in the Chilean Lake District. Quaternary Research 54(1):81-89.

Taylor, R. C., C. V. Haynes Jr., Donna L. Kirner, and John R. Southon 1999 Radiocarbon analyses of modern organics at Monte Verde, Chile: No evidence for a local reservoir effect. American Antiquity 64(3):455-460.

Waguespack, Nicole M. 2007 Why We’re Still Arguing About the Pleistocene Occupation of the Americas. Evolutionary Anthropology 16:63-74.

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