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10,000 Years Ago in South America

Chilean Sites The Monte Verde site in Chile, an archaeological find of an ancient South American settlement, has been firmly dated to 12,500 years ago, totally upsetting the previously accepted theory that the oldest established culture in the Americas was in the high plains of North America around 11,000 years ago. The findings also support the theories that the date the ancient Siberians crossed over the Bering land bridge was at least 20,000 years ago. The Monte Verde site might also indicate that people were capable of travelling over the open sea much earlier than previously though. The next oldest site, dated with accuracy, is a cave in Brazil, about 11,300 years old.

Rock wall paintings in the Caverna da Pinta Pedrana in Brazil show people capable of creating a sophisticated art form were living in this region by 9000 BC, a few thousand years earlier than believed. It was usually thought people first settled in the Andes and only migrated east across the mountains much later.

Remains of a hunter-gatherer community, 14,000 years old, have been found in Pikimachay cave in Peru.

By 7000 BC, hunter-gatherer people were living in Patagonia, Argentina.

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