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- ↑ Wilford, John Noble (25 August 1998). "Chilean Field Yields New Clues to Peopling of Americas". New York Times. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ "CHILEAN SITE VERIFIED AS EARLIEST HABITATION OF AMERICAS; FINDINGS SHOW MONTE VERDE DATES BACK 12,500 YEARS". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ↑ Pino, Mario; Navarro, Rayen X. (2005). "Geoarchaeology of the archaic site Chan-Chan 18, coast of Valdivia: environmental discrimination of human occupation and its relation with the middle Holocene marine transgression". Andean Geology . 32 (1). doi:10.5027/andgeoV32n1-a05 (inactive 31 January 2024).
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link) - ↑ Pino; et al. (2012). "The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile". Quaternary International . 299: 3–12. Bibcode:2013QuInt.299....3P. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.05.001. hdl: 10533/131324 .
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