Ancient Pleistocene site near Pitiquito in northwestern Sonora, Mexico
El Fin del Mundo (Spanish: 'End of the World') is an ancient Pleistocene site near Pitiquito in northwestern Sonora, Mexico.[1] It features Clovis culture period occupation proposed to date to 13,390 calibrated years Before Present, though this is contested.
El Fin del Mundo is suggested to be one of the oldest Clovis sites in North America, roughly similar chronologically to the Aubrey site in Denton County, Texas,[2] which produced a radiocarbon date that is almost identical.[3]
- ^ Guadalupe Sánchez Miranda, Edmund P. Gaines, Vance T. Holliday [1] "EL FIN DEL MUNDO, SONORA. CAZADORES CLOVIS DE MEGAFAUNA DEL PLEISTOCENO TERMINAL"
- ^ Ferring, C. Reid (2001) The Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Aubrey Clovis Site (41DN479) Denton County, Texas. (Center for Environmental Archaeology, Dept. of Geography, Univ. of North Texas, Denton
- ^ Sanchez, Guadalupe, Vance T. Holliday, Edmund P. Gaines, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña, Andrew Kowler, Todd Lange, Gregory W. L. Hodgins, Susan M. Mentzer, and Ismael Sanchez- Morales. Human (Clovis)gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.) association ~13,390 calibrated yr BP in Sonora, Mexico. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111: 10972-10977 doi:10.1073/pnas.1404546111