Summary:
- Archaeologists have discovered a site in northern Chile that provides evidence of early human habitation dating back over 15,000 years.
- The site, located in the Atacama Desert, contains stone tools, animal bones, and other artifacts that suggest a small group of hunter-gatherers lived in the region during the late Pleistocene era.
- The discovery of this site adds to our understanding of the earliest human migrations and settlements in South America, and helps fill in gaps in the archaeological record of this region.