A radiocarbon dating study by R. E. Taylor, C. Vance Haynes Jr., and others, published in the journal American Antiquity, reportedly found nothing that undermined Monte Verde's dating.
Notes on verification
Corroborated by multiple peer-reviewed sources including the original study published in American Antiquity and related follow-up analyses in Antiquity, confirming no local reservoir effect that would undermine Monte Verde dating. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Monte Verde Under Fire - Archaeology Magazine Archive (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/monte-verde-ii-an-assessment-of-new-radiocarbon-dates-and-their-sedimentological-context/CF19BDBDE1ECE700EE59C7BF7CF502FF (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/radiocarbon-analyses-of-modern-organics-at-monte-verde-chile-no-evidence-for-a-local-reservoir-effect/3E028D8062ADD61511923332B273AC38 (corroboration)
- https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Radiocarbon-Analyses-of-Modern-Organics-at-Monte-No-Taylor-Haynes/4a4fc796e1514d813028598cfb8674bd093f2a20 (corroboration)