A new genetic study shows that cultural diversity in the so-called Southern Cone—the roughly triangular southernmost part of South America—was strongly influenced by extensive human migration. An ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For decades, a theory based on the dating of organic matter (sampled from the Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile) dated the oldest American ...

For decades, the strongest evidence for the earliest human settlement in the Americas came from a site in Chile called Monte Verde. Scientists found echoes of human presence dating back to around ...