Unit 3 Lesson 6: Discovery Cards

Discovery Card #1

The Monte Verde Site

An ancient site was discovered along a river in south central Chile
in 1993.
The site contained remains of shelters, stone tools, and preserved
plants.
Scientific tests showed the site was at least 12,500 years old and
perhaps older.
This site is located 10,000 miles south of Alaska and the Bering

Strait.

Discovery Card #2

The Bluefish Caves Site

An ancient site was discovered in Bluefish Caves in Canadas
Yukon territory.
The caves are in an area that people from Siberia could have
reached by crossing the land bridge.
Stone and bone artifacts were found that indicate it was used as a
campsite by early Americans.
These artifacts were dated as being around 24,000 years ago.

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Discovery Card #3

The Santa Rosa Island Site

The bones of a woman were discovered 40 years ago on Santa
Rosa Island off the coast of California.
New tests that were not available when the bones were first found
have dated the bones as being about 13,000 years old.
Historians believe this woman belonged to a group that probably
did not hunt mammoths, but fished and gathered shellfish instead.

Discovery Card #4

The Meadowcroft Site

An Ice Age campsite called the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter was
discovered in Pennsylvania.
It included a number of objects that early people had left behind.
Scientific tests showed the artifacts were 14,000 to 15,000 years
old. A few were dated at being more than 19,000 years old.