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This book highlights the knowledge about landscapes and
characteristics of the earliest hunter-gatherer lifeway in Southern
Patagonia. It presents an analysis of the archaeological
investigations carried out during three decades by an
interdisciplinary team that involved archaeologists,
anthropologists, paleontologists, geologists and specialists in
pollen and diatoms. The database yielded was recovered from
systematic survey and excavations from the Pleistocene and Holocene
stratigraphic layers of the rockshelter known as AEP-1, Piedra
Museo Locality, situated in the central plateau of Santa Cruz
Province, Argentina. Piedra Museo is a unique place in the world of
high academic interest with some of the earliest archaeological
remains in the Americas. Researchers defined two strata and several
Stratigraphic units in the site based on the sedimentological and
pedological characteristics. The depositional zones contain
archaeological remains that are interpreted as hunting events
corresponding to two main different occasions in the human
colonization of the region, and a third human occupation during the
Middle Holocene. Last one occurred then of the massive rockshelter
roof colapse. The faunal remains led to a new approach to the
palaeoenvironmental evolution of this enclosed basin. This volume
describes the management of lithic raw materials and social
networks from first human occupation of the Patagonian region to
territorial consolidation of hunter-gatherer societies.
15 papers in English covering the scope of subjects currently being
researched in Argentina and arising from two symposia at the 15th
Congresso nacional de Arqueologia Argentina in 2001.
The early prehistory of South America is poorly known by the
English speaking world. This edited volume, translated from
Spanish, contains twenty-one short papers documenting some of the
most important recently investigated early archaeological sites
from South America. These papers report Paleoamerican complexes and
excavations of sites older than eleven thousand radiocarbon years
before present, as well as cover issues in geoarchaeology,
geochronology, Pleistocene extinction, and paleoecology. Numerous
graphics are used to illustrate site locations, excavations, and
artifacts.
This text deals with certain geological aspects of the extreme
geographical locations of South America and the Antarctic
Peninsula. Topics include: Brazil - geology and vertebrate
paleontology; pleistocene wave-built terraces of Northern Rio de
Janeiro state; and holocene coastal evolution.
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