Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical
regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We …

Abstract The South American Archaeological Isotopic Database (SAAID) is a comprehensive
open-access resource that aggregates all available bioarchaeological stable and radiogenic …

How did hunter-gatherers initially settle and move across extreme environments? We
conducted a multi-disciplinary study to tackle this question, focusing on how …

South American camelids were one of the most important animal resources exploited by the
human groups that occupied the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range in Catamarca …

The aim of this study is to assess the variability of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope
composition of herbivores-guanaco and huemul-in southern Patagonia. The study area …

This article contributes to the debate on the habitat of “New World” camelids in pre-Colonial
South America and provides new insights into the breeding and herding strategies …

The application of stable isotope analyses allows a diachronic characterisation of species
habitat and feeding behaviour, information of utmost importance for zooarchaeological …

This article reconstructs the final diet of sacrificed domestic camelids from Huanchaquito-Las
Llamas to understand whether feeding was part of the ritual practice. The site is situated on …

In this paper, we carry out an isotopic study to learn about the diet and mobility patterns of
the human groups that inhabited different areas and environments of western Catamarca …

Pastoralism and camelid management are traditionally attributed to the sociopolitical,
economic and cosmovision of Andean populations, rather than to lowland hunter gatherer …