“…Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human settlements are widespread on the continent, although their number is quite limited (Barnosky and Lindsey, 2010). Some sites have been recognised along the western coast of Chile (Núñez et al, 1994), in the extreme southern part of the continent (Massone, 1996), in the central Andes (Dillehay et al, 1992), in central-northern areas of Argentina (Nami, 1987;Martinez, 1997;Borrero et al, 1998;Long et al, 1998;Politis and Gutiérrez, 1998;Grosjean et al, 2005;Rodriguez, 2005;Yacobaccio and Morales, 2005), in the northwestern (Correal and Van der Hammen, 2003), northeastern (Guérin et al, 1993;Guidon et al, 1994) and central-southern regions of Brazil (Miller, 1987;Schmitz, 1987;Kipnis, 1998;Prous and Fogaça, 1999;Neves et al, 2004;Araujo et al, 2005), in northern Venezuela (Ochsenius and Gruhn, 1979) and along the Ecuadorian coast (Ficcarelli et al, 2003).…”