Tom Dillehay

Tom Dillehay

Tom Dillehay is an American anthropologist who is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture^[1] and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. While working at Universidad Austral de Chile he was involved in the excavations at Monte Verde in Chile where a human settlement was found. Dillehay claims that the remains are about 14,500 years old, challenging the Clovis theory of the first human arrival in the Americas.

External links

• Anthropology in Universidad Austral
• Vanderbilt University Anthropology Department

References

1. ^ Owens, Ann Marie Deer (10 January 2011). "Renowned Vanderbilt anthropologist holder of new Rebecca Webb Wilson chair". Vanderbilt News. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/01/renowned-vanderbilt-anthropologist-holder-of-new-rebecca-webb-wilson-chair/. Retrieved 23 March 2011. 

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