An evaluation of recent claims for early human settlement of South America is presented.
Some of the problems with these cases are reviewed, particularly the ways in which …

Archaeologists working in Mexico recently claimed evidence for pre-Last Glacial Maximum
human occupation in the Americas, based on lithic items excavated from Chiquihuite Cave …

3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology, and Archaeology serves as
a handbook for the collection and processing of 3-D scanned data and as a tool for scholars …

This chapter presents the application of actualistic taphonomy to the study of one of the
inorganic remains produced by hominins since 3 million year BP up to historical times: lithic …

Archaeological research grounded in evolutionary ecology (EE), and specifically human
behavioral ecology (HBE), has sought to explain past behavior using models that derive …

With over 200 peer-reviewed papers published over the last 20 years, 3D modelling is no
longer a gimmick but an established and increasingly common analytical tool for stone …

An assemblage of coarse volcanic rock (CVR) derived from the walls of a rockshelter in
Aisén, Chile was recently described as consisting of bifaces, projectile points, and picks …

Use of Patagonia's forests by hunter-gatherers remains relatively poorly understood.
Regional archaeological records indicate initial forest colonization during the middle …

The presence of pseudo artifacts in the archaeological record is not rare, especially in
contexts where lithic raw material of good flaking quality is naturally available. If taphonomic …

Este artículo busca desarrollar una propuesta de análisis para enfrentar la ambigüedad en
material lítico en contextos finipleistocenos de localidades aluviales. Enfocamos nuestro …