[Aztlan] MORE ON THE MONTE VERDE SEAWEED FIND

[michael ruggeri]


Listeros,

In follow up stories on the remarkable seaweed discoveries by Tom  
Dillehay at Monte Verde, a National Science Foundation article adds  
this information. Dillehay sees by the foodstuff he has found at the  
site from both inland and coastal areas that people living at Monte  
Verde moved back and forth between the areas frequently. Dillehay  
believes this shows a slower more deliberate movement by the First  
Americans than previously believed. The seaweed samples radio carbon  
dates match the dates of the human artifacts Dillehay reported years  
ago, 14,000 years ago. Dillehay pointed out that it takes time to  
adapt to inland resources and then come back out to the coast. Along  
with the seaweed, Dillehay has recently found five new species of sea  
borne food thus showing the Monte Verde folks who lived 50 miles  
inland had frequent contact with the coast and had a long tradition  
of exploiting coastal resources again lending more credence to the  
peopling of the Americas originally by canoe from Asia.

The NSF story is here;
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111530&org=NSF&from=news

Here is a tiny URL;
http://tinyurl.com/3lub34


Here is the May 9, Science Magazine article Dillehay and his team  
posted on this discovery. It requires payment.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/320/5877/729

Mike Ruggeri


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