Ancient habitation in Chile among oldest in the Americas, report says

Radiocarbon dating of seaweed puts the settlement at about 14,000 years old, on a par with a cave site in Oregon and much older than the Clovis sites of the Southwest U.S., researchers say. Seaweed found at an inland settlement in Chile confirms that it is one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Americas and demonstrates that the villagers had extensive contact with a coastline that was 50 miles away, researchers said today.

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