Career
After Tom Dillehay"s excavation of Monte Verde near Puerto Montt, where human remains estimated to be about 12,500 years old have been found, challenging the Clovis theory of the first human arrival in the Americas, Pino controversially claimed the site was 33,000 years old. Other studied sites includes the Chan-Chan settlement near Mehuín and the Gomphotherium of Osorno.
