Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Dillehay, Tom D.; Goodbred, S. L.; Pino, Mario; Sánchez, Vı́ctor; Tham, Teresa Rosales; Adovasio, J. M.; Collins, Michael B.; Netherly, Patricia J.; Hastorf, Christine A.; Chiou, Katherine L.; Piperno, Dolores R.; Madeira, Isabel Rey; Velchoff, Nancy

doi:10.1126/sciadv.1602778

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“…In this regard, the growing information on human colonization shows that its process involved a complex scenario. In fact, most scholars now believe that the Americas were peopled more than once (Goebel et al, 2008), and that the different colonizing events produced remarkable technological and adaptive diversity, with the Pacific coast as the main initial entry route (Erlandson & Braje, 2015, Dillehay et al, 2017. However, the Atlantic seaboard and the still-remaining Late Glacial Maximum exposed continental shelves might also have played a significant role in the expansion of the FP users (Pearson, 2004: Figure 8.5;Nami, 2016b).…”

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New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America

Nami¹,

Florines²,

Toscano³

2018

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New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America

Nami¹,

Florines²,

Toscano³

2018

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“…Finally, during the last decades several archaeological sites demonstrated the existence of pre-Clovis and pre-Fell occupations dated at~15 cal. kya in North and South America (e.g., [167][168][169][170][171]) among others. Besides, by~13-11.5 cal.…”

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“…The growing information on the New World human colonization shows that this process involved a complex scenario [180,181]. Actually, most scholars now believe that the Americas were peopled more than once [180], and that the different colonizing events produced remarkable technological and adaptive diversity, with the Pacific coast as the main initial entry route [169,182]. However, the Atlantic seaboard and the still-remaining Late Glacial Maximum exposed continental shelves might also have played a significant role in the expansion of the FP users [183][184][185][186].…”

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Paleoamerican Occupation, Stone Tools from the Cueva del Medio, and Considerations for the Late Pleistocene Archaeology in Southern South America

Nami

2019

Quaternary

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Archaeological excavations at the Cueva del Medio performed during the 1980s and 1990s yielded an important record of both faunal and stone tool remains, as well as data, to discuss issues that occurred during the Terminal Pleistocene. Due to that, the shaped Paleoamerican artifacts collected in the author’s excavations were partially informed. The present article provides unpublished data on the field-work, the results of a techno-morphological analysis of the stone tools, and considerations about early hunter-gatherer societies along with their regional paleo-environmental interactions, as well other topics regarding the regional archaeological process during the last millennium of the Pleistocene. Findings from there have been extremely useful for discussing diverse paleo-ecological and archaeological topics and have extended the knowledge and discussions about different Pleistocene scientific issues, mainly related with flora, fauna, and the colonization of southern Patagonia.

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“…Unfortunately, the extinctions also co-occur with climate change at the end of the Pleistocene. Further compounding the problem is that archeology over the last few decades has continued to demonstrate that many of the earliest peoples in the Americas had broad spectrum diets focused on small game, aquatic resources, and a variety of foods that were far more abundant than megafauna (Cannon & Meltzer, 2004, 2008Dillehay et al, 2017;Erlandson et al, 2011). Similarly, other studies demonstrate that many megafauna species were extinct prior to human arrival (Boulanger & Lyman, 2014;Lima-Ribeiro & Diniz-Filho, 2013).…”

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The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

Nagaoka

Rick

Wolverton

2018

Ecology and Evolution

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Research on human‐environment interactions that informs ecological practices and guides conservation and restoration has become increasingly interdisciplinary over the last few decades. Fueled in part by the debate over defining a start date for the Anthropocene, historical disciplines like archeology, paleontology, geology, and history are playing an important role in understanding long‐term anthropogenic impacts on the planet. Pleistocene overkill, the notion that humans overhunted megafauna near the end of the Pleistocene in the Americas, Australia, and beyond, is used as prime example of the impact that humans can have on the planet. However, the importance of the overkill model for explaining human–environment interactions and anthropogenic impacts appears to differ across disciplines. There is still considerable debate, particularly within archeology, about the extent to which people may have been the cause of these extinctions. To evaluate how different disciplines interpret and use the overkill model, we conducted a citation analysis of selected works of the main proponent of the overkill model, Paul Martin. We examined the ideas and arguments for which Martin's overkill publications were cited and how they differed between archeologists and ecologists. Archeologists cite overkill as one in a combination of causal mechanisms for the extinctions. In contrast, ecologists are more likely to accept that humans caused the extinctions. Aspects of the overkill argument are also treated as established ecological processes. For some ecologists, overkill provides an analog for modern‐day human impacts and supports the argument that humans have “always” been somewhat selfish overconsumers. The Pleistocene rewilding and de‐extinction movements are built upon these perspectives. The use of overkill in ecological publications suggests that despite increasing interdisciplinarity, communication with disciplines outside of ecology is not always reciprocal or even.

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Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Abstract: Recent archaeological work in Peru suggests a slower-paced movement of early humans along the Pacific coast.

Cited by 112 publications

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New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America

New Paleoindian Finds, Further Fell Points Data, and Technological Observations from Uruguay: Implications for the Human Peopling in Southeastern South America

Paleoamerican Occupation, Stone Tools from the Cueva del Medio, and Considerations for the Late Pleistocene Archaeology in Southern South America

The overkill model and its impact on environmental research

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