[Aztlan] SEAWEED DISCOVERY AT MONTE VERDE

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

Tom Dillehay, the excavator of Monte Verde, the first Pre-Clovis site  
in the Americas that received the acceptance of the entire scientific  
community as being genuinely Pre-Clovis, has been investigating the  
presence of seaweed found in fragments on the floors of habitation  
sites  and on an ancient cutting tool at Monte Verde. The nearest  
shore is hours away. Many seaweed fragments have been found in  
cooking areas suggesting seaweed was food and others were mixed with  
other plants and chewed to be used for medicine.

The discovery of these seaweed fragments lends further credence to  
the concept that the earliest Americans were used to relying on ocean  
resources, thus reached Monte Verde by canoe 14,000 years ago.

EurekAlert has the short article here;

http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2008-05/aaft-sas050208.php

Here is a tiny URL;

http://tinyurl.com/4ojwvq

Mike Ruggeri



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