Paisley Caves
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The Paisley Caves or the Paisley Five Mile Point Caves complex is a system of eight caves in an arid, desolate region of south-central Oregon, United States north of the present-day city of Paisley, O
A Bureau of Land Management archaeologist walks near Cave No. 5
A coprolite from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, sampled in 2008 by Dr. Dennis LeRoy Jenkins with Oregon State University. Thought to be of human origin, but the morphology is inconsistent and sampled DNA may have been mobilized by fluids. Dated to 12,265 radiocarbon years
Monte Verde
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Monte Verde is a Paleolithic archaeological site in the Llanquihue Province in southern Chile, located near Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region. The site is primarily known for Monte Verde II, generally su
Paisley Caves
…crossed the Bering Strait into North America 12,000 cal yr BP. However, the Paisley Caves and other archaeological sites throughout the Americas, such as Monte Verde, have been dated to earlier than Clovis technologies. Scientific debate has shifted in recent years to question this long-held "Clovis first" hypothesis…
View of Monte Verde and Chinchihuapi Creek in 2012