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Tom Dillehay is a modern American archaeologist whose work significantly advanced our understanding of paleoindian cultures. His extensive excavations at the Monte Verde site in Chile revealed evidence of human occupation dating back over fifteen thousand years – substantially predating previously a...
Richard S. MacNeish was an American archaeologist famous for discovering the sequence of domesticated maize evolution in the Tehuacán Valley of Mexico.
David J. Meltzer is an American archaeologist specializing in the peopling of North America and the environmental history of Ice Age hunter-gatherers.
James M. Adovasio is an American archaeologist famous for directing the excavation of Meadowcroft Rockshelter, an early pre-Clovis site in Pennsylvania.
Venezuelan archaeologist who pioneered modern archaeology in Venezuela, notably discovering early preceramic sites like El Jobo and collaborating with Irving Rouse.
