Driest place on Earth inhabited millennia ago

• Autores: Michael Marshall
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2931, 2013, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The heart of the Atacama desert is the driest place on Earth. But that didn't prevent the first settlers of South America from setting up home there more than 12,000 years ago. Aside from Antarctica, South America was the last continent that modern humans colonized, says Claudio Latorre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago. The first settlers arrived from North America at least 14,000 years ago, but their route south is a mystery. Most researchers assume they traveled through fertile corridors, perhaps down the west coast where seafood was plentiful, at least until you hit the desert.