Major factual error in the article that undermines the significance of these findings:

> Like the Meadowcroft site, Monte Verde has been dated to as many as 19,000 years ago. Together the sites are important and do more than help us understand how and when North America was settled; they also show that there were people in North America well before the Bering land bridge formed about 10,000 years ago, throwing into dispute the theory that North America was settled primarily by Asiatic wanderers over the bridge.

The Bering land bridge was NOT formed 10000 years ago -- that's when it was covered by water.

All this proves is that people settled in one place 19000 years ago. They probably still came from Asia. Nothing revolutionary here.