Arecent study published in 2024 (Pérez-Balarezo A, Pino M, Navarro-Harris X, et al. Revised pre-Younger Dryas chronocultural sequence at the Pilauco site, north-western Patagonia (40°–44°S). Antiquity. 2024;98(399):e16. doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.29) reported an older than expected date for stone tools in Patagonia.
These tools were dated to "17,300–12,800 cal BP, which indicates human presence in north-western Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period.."
The stone tools were obtained from two sites located in Pilauco and Los Notros, in the Chilean Lake Region in northern Patagonia, close to the city of Osorno.
The Younger Dryas was took place roughly 11,700-13,000 years ago during which the Northern Hemisphere cooled significantly while there was a warm period in the Southern Hemisphere. The Last Ice Age was coming to an end, but there were variations in the weather on a global scale, with rainfall pattern altered, global cooling, glaciers advancing in the North, but retreating in the South.
This finding is significant because it shows that modern humans were present in Chile at least 3,000 years before the currently accepted dates. This suggests that humans reached America much earlier.
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