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A Late Ice-Age Settlement in Southern Chile

A settled community flourished in the forests of southern Chile some 13,000 years ago. The well-preserved site shows that New World Pleistocene culture was much more advanced than has been thought

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 251 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “A Late Ice-Age Settlement in Southern Chile” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 251 No. 4 (), p. 106
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1084-106