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A team of archaeologists have found that Monte Verde could actually be less than half the age previously thought, placing the north-to-south expansion theory back at the centre of a heated debate over the human history of the Americas.

Dr Todd Surovell, from the department of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and the lead author of the study published on Thursday in Science, said: “Monte Verde was the anchor for the idea that people were in South America before we see the appearance of the Clovis complex in North America – and for the entirety of my career that has been the case.”