Cueva Fell

- 52.045861111111 - 70.064666666667Koordinaten: 52 ° 2 ' 45 " S, 70 ° 3' 53 " W

Fell's Cave (English Fell's Cave, Spanish Cueva de fur ) is a semi-cave with archaeological finds from the American Paleolithic 9000-8000 BC, in the Chilean Patagonia. It lies directly on the border with Argentina, near the Strait of Magellan in the valley of the Rio Chico. The designated in Spanish as Cueva Fell Abri was excavated in the 1930s. The archaeological site found evidence that humans had already colonized the extreme south of America shortly after the end of the last ice age. 1977 an even older site was detected in Monte Verde.

The southern parts of present-day Chile were so occupied both in the marshes at Monte Verde ( 10500-9500 BC) and in the drier areas of the Cueva de fur. The half- cave was around 10,000 BC by hunters occupied, the waste layers left. Under the rubble of the collapsed Abri fireplaces with the broken bones of extinct later horses, sloths and guanacos, as well as tools have been found stone and bone. Among the stone tools themselves short, wide fishtail projectile points, a form that has been found in many places in South America and are considered South American equivalent of the projectile points of the North American Clovis culture were. The tips were machined on both sides and have a shoulder, some of which served the tip to be attached to a shaft. The hunting weapons and tools of Cueva Fell equal to aging of Monteverde. So you were part of a longstanding tradition in the New World.

The Fell's cave was proposed, together with the nearby Pali Aike Cave National Park Pali Aike 1998 by Chile as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.