The validity of the earliest site in the Americas is called into question.

Monte Verde Excavation: or Clovis Police Beat a Retreat Click here for most recent (8/24/98) on Monte Verde After long, often bitter debate, archeologists have finally come to a consensus that humans reached southern Chile 12, 500 years ago. The date is more than 1, 000 years before the previous benchmark for human habitation in the Americas, 11, 200-year-old stone spear points first discovered in ...