From Gustavo Politis, one of the most renowned South American archaeologists, comes the
first in-depth study in English of the last “undiscovered” people of the Amazon. His work is …

Publisher Summary This chapter deals with the available archeological knowledge, building
a history of the peopling, the mobility of human groups and their relationship with the …

The Arroyo Seco 2 site contains a rich archaeological record, exceptional for South America,
to explain the expansion of Homo sapiens into the Americas and their interaction with extinct …

The dietary importance of marine resources is often cited as a factor conditioning spatial
organization among huntergatherers. In particular, fishing has been linked with a settled way …

Human subsistence systems in the Pampa and Patagonia regions evolved from generalists
during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene to specialists during the Middle Holocene …

La transición Pleistoceno/Holoceno fue un tiempo crítico ambiental en el cual se produjo la
dispersión humana del último continente en ser poblado, América del Sur. Los primeros …

Latin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from
which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual …

The Pleistocene–Holocene transition was a critical time for the dispersal of human societies
all over South America. People looking for places to settle had to accept high environmental …

In this paper we use non-ambiguous collections and sightings data from the 18th century to
generate potential distribution models of three species of South American ungulates. These …

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss methodological criteria that may be of use in
exploring the role of water in the formation of the faunal record in fluvial and lacustrine …