Seaweed shows Chilean village is among oldest in the Americas

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Seaweed found at an inland settlement in Chile confirms that the village is one of the oldest inhabited sites in the Americas and demonstrates that residents had extensive contact with the coastline, 50 miles away, researchers said Friday.

The inland settlement, about 14,000 years old, predates the Southwestern Clovis sites by about a millennium and coincides with findings at Paisley Cave in Oregon, writes The Times’ Thomas H. Maugh II.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City