Dr. Tom Dillehay

And today, the indigenous people have to masticate it and spit it out, let it dry in the sun, and it can become potentially a medicinal element. But that indicated to me, and it always stuck in my mind, okay, they brought that plant back to Monte Berri. Did they learn how to use it from groups in Argentina? Did they try to use it? Was somebody sick from it? Did they abandon that plant?

And it gets to the very point of trial and error with anything out there in the environment. And one point I'll make here is I work with the local Mapuche indigenous people. And I talk with the shamans down there who are healers and ritual people and so forth. And the shamans, I asked them the same question. How did you learn about the plants, the edibles and the medicinals?

And it gets to the very point of trial and error with anything out there in the environment. And one point I'll make here is I work with the local Mapuche indigenous people. And I talk with the shamans down there who are healers and ritual people and so forth. And the shamans, I asked them the same question. How did you learn about the plants, the edibles and the medicinals?

And it gets to the very point of trial and error with anything out there in the environment. And one point I'll make here is I work with the local Mapuche indigenous people. And I talk with the shamans down there who are healers and ritual people and so forth. And the shamans, I asked them the same question. How did you learn about the plants, the edibles and the medicinals?

They said, we learned it from the animals. We watch what they eat and then we tried it out.

They said, we learned it from the animals. We watch what they eat and then we tried it out.

They said, we learned it from the animals. We watch what they eat and then we tried it out.

Good question. I've always thought that there were multiple avenues into South America. First, you have to think about the Panamanian Isthmus. It's very narrow. As you come out of southern Panama, the Dovian Forest into Colombia, that's the bridge into South America. And they could have come along the Pacific coast.

Good question. I've always thought that there were multiple avenues into South America. First, you have to think about the Panamanian Isthmus. It's very narrow. As you come out of southern Panama, the Dovian Forest into Colombia, that's the bridge into South America. And they could have come along the Pacific coast.

Good question. I've always thought that there were multiple avenues into South America. First, you have to think about the Panamanian Isthmus. It's very narrow. As you come out of southern Panama, the Dovian Forest into Colombia, that's the bridge into South America. And they could have come along the Pacific coast.

They could have come along the Atlantic coast or just over land or a mixture of those. You know, the peopling of South America, there's two theories. One, they came along the waterway, the Pacific. But you have to throw in the Atlantic as well, that side, and by land. So I'm a believer in multiple pathways. You know, it could be any or all of those.

They could have come along the Atlantic coast or just over land or a mixture of those. You know, the peopling of South America, there's two theories. One, they came along the waterway, the Pacific. But you have to throw in the Atlantic as well, that side, and by land. So I'm a believer in multiple pathways. You know, it could be any or all of those.

They could have come along the Atlantic coast or just over land or a mixture of those. You know, the peopling of South America, there's two theories. One, they came along the waterway, the Pacific. But you have to throw in the Atlantic as well, that side, and by land. So I'm a believer in multiple pathways. You know, it could be any or all of those.

It's been difficult, not only for me in some ways, but colleagues. South American colleagues, for their data to be evaluated and eventually accepted, much of it has to be published in English. There's a certain degree of

It's been difficult, not only for me in some ways, but colleagues. South American colleagues, for their data to be evaluated and eventually accepted, much of it has to be published in English. There's a certain degree of

It's been difficult, not only for me in some ways, but colleagues. South American colleagues, for their data to be evaluated and eventually accepted, much of it has to be published in English. There's a certain degree of

what I call academic imperialism that still operates in the world, where there seems to be this notion of, well, first of all, not a lot of North Americans read Portuguese or Spanish, so they're going to have to read things in English. But I think that It's a discipline that's growing very quickly. It's one of the hot topics in anthropology.

what I call academic imperialism that still operates in the world, where there seems to be this notion of, well, first of all, not a lot of North Americans read Portuguese or Spanish, so they're going to have to read things in English. But I think that It's a discipline that's growing very quickly. It's one of the hot topics in anthropology.

what I call academic imperialism that still operates in the world, where there seems to be this notion of, well, first of all, not a lot of North Americans read Portuguese or Spanish, so they're going to have to read things in English. But I think that It's a discipline that's growing very quickly. It's one of the hot topics in anthropology.

And getting this information out, archaeology, as I've hinted at, and as you well know, is a discipline that requires a lot of interdisciplinary research and a lot of resources. But these sites are not easy to find either. Monty Berthie found me. I didn't find Monty Berthie. It came to me vis-a-vis this student. And a lot of sites are like that. Farmers and fishermen find sites and so forth.