Ancient Apocalypse argues that the Clovis-first paradigm marginalized evidence of pre-Clovis settlement in the Americas. It points to Monte Verde, excavated by Tom Dillehay, and presents his claim that his evidence was suppressed and that a colleague called the Chilean site a CIA fabrication in a newspaper letter. The video also argues that Smithsonian anthropologists Aleš Hrdlička and William Henry Holmes helped make pre-3000 BCE peopling professionally taboo in early 1900s anthropology. The Society for American Archaeology later issued a statement criticizing the series.
Ancient Apocalypse argues Clovis-first dogma marginalized pre-Clovis evidence
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Key facts
- Tom Dillehay—not “Tom Dillah”—excavated Monte Verde in Chile and is affiliated with Texas A&M University; the claimed title “director of excavation for American Archaeology” is unsupported.
- Ancient Apocalypse presents Dillehay’s account that evidence from Monte Verde was suppressed and says a colleague described the site as a CIA fabrication in a Chilean newspaper.
- The video argues that Smithsonian anthropologists Aleš Hrdlička and William Henry Holmes helped make pre-3000 BCE peopling of the Americas professionally taboo in early 20th-century anthropology.
- The Society for American Archaeology issued a public statement criticizing Ancient Apocalypse.
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Tom Dillehayen.wikipedia.org
In 1977, Dillehay became involved in the excavations at Monte Verde, a site in Chile where an early human settlement was discovered in 1975.
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Dillehay began excavating the Monte Verde site in 1978 and recovered evidence of its extreme antiquity as well as its high degree of organic preservation.
Learn more about the 14400-year-old Monte Verde site, Chile.liberalarts.tamu.edu
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