To understand the current biodiversity crisis, it is crucial to determine how humans have
affected biodiversity in the past. However, the extent of human involvement in species …

Although aquatic resources are often seen as central to the development of post-Pleistocene
cultural complexity, most models of human evolution have all but ignored the role of aquatic …

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction chronologies are poorly understood across eastern
and south-east Asia. Previous radiometric studies suggested that surprisingly many extinct …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the history of study and the current status of Mid-
Holocene climatic and cultural change in the South Central Andes, which host a wide range …

South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other
continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear largely due to the …

During the latest Pleistocene-earliest Holocene, South American terrestrial vertebrate
faunas suffered one of the largest (and probably the youngest) extinction in the world for this …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

We report on previously unknown early archaeological sites in the Bolivian lowlands,
demonstrating for the first time early and middle Holocene human presence in western …

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 …

The main goal of this paper is to review the earliest archaeological evidence for the
presence of humans in Fuego-Patagonia. The paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic …