I find articles about the first inhabitants of the Americas, North and South, intriguing. See a Discover Magazine piece on pre-Clovis settlements in South America. The site discussed is a bit southwest of Puerto Montt in Chile and not so very far from San Carlos de Bariloche, the Argentine hill station.
Early inhabitants were eating animals - called megafauna - which no longer exist, having gone extinct with the help of those hungry early humans. Their artifacts survive because they were covered by a peat bog which prevented decay.
Carbon dating indicates they lived there perhaps as early as 19,000 years ago. Call these people an early Stone Age culture, their stone tools were not sophisticated or elegant like Clovis points. Hat tip to RealClearScience for the link.
