The Pleistocene–holocene Transition and Human Occupations in the Southern Cone of South America

Borrero, Luis Alberto; Zárate, Marcelo; Miotti, Laura; Massone, Mauricio

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(97)00063-3

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“…The human populations that would have lived in this area c. 11,000-10,000 BP would therefore done so under colder, dry sub-humid conditions (Quattrocchio et al, 2008;Tonni and Cione, 1994;Prieto, 1996;Tonni et al, 1999Tonni et al, , 2003. Between c. 10,500 and 9000 BP a change in these dry conditions towards higher rainfall levels and temperatures has been indicated by numerous proxy records from the Pampas region (Tonni and Fidalgo, 1978;Prado et al, 1987;Alberdi et al, 1989;Tonni y Cione, 1994;Prieto, 1996;Zárate et al, 1995Zárate et al, , 2000Zarate, 1997;Borrero et al, 1998;Bonadonna et al, 1999;Tonni et al, 1999;Martinez, 1999Martinez, , 2001Martinez, , 2007Prieto et al, 2004;Grill et al, 2007;Gutierrez y Martínez, 2008;Gutierrez et al, 2010).…”

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Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental context of the human settlement in the Eastern Tandilia Range, Argentina

Martínez

Mazzanti

Quintana

et al. 2013

Quaternary International

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The Tandilia range is a discontinuous series of hills and valleys located at the central area of the Pampean region (Argentina). The process of human settlement reached in this zone the highest population densities and reoccupation levels of Southern South America, developing under the strongly changing climatic conditions that characterized the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. This paper analyzes the geoarcheological and paleoenvironmental record of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (c. 9400-10,500 14 C BP) recovered from cave and rockshelter sedimentary successions of the Tandilia range. The analysis of several lines of evidence (stratigraphic, geoarchaeological, archaeological, zooarchaeological, and paleobotanical), suggests that a cold arid to semi-arid climate characterized the late Pleistocene (c. 10,500 BP), and changed abruptly to warmer conditions towards the beginning of the Post-Glacial Period. As a consequence of this climatic amelioration, the populations inhabiting the Tandilia range would have been benefited by a higher availability of resources, which could explain the higher levels of site density and reoccupation found in the area during this period.

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Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental context of the human settlement in the Eastern Tandilia Range, Argentina

Martínez

Mazzanti

Quintana

et al. 2013

Quaternary International

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“…Rather, the differences observed appear to be three different ways of meeting basic needs, rooted in a variation that developed much earlier (Araujo and Pugliese 2009). To use an archaeological example in order to address the time interval expected to produce sufficient lithic diversification, Borrero (1989a) and Borrero et al (1998) presented a periodization of Tierra del Fuego / Patagonia. The first appearance of bifacial points (Fishtail points) dates from 12,330 calBP (10,400 ± 80 14C years BP).…”

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On Vastness and Variability: Cultural Transmission, Historicity, and the Paleoindian Record in Eastern South America

Araújo

2015

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Eastern South America, or what is today Brazilian territory, poses interesting questions about the early human occupation of the Americas. Three totally distinct and contemporaneous lithic technologies, dated between 11,000 and 10,000 14 C BP, are present in different portions of the country: the Umbu tradition in the south, with its formal bifacial industry, with well-retouched scrapers and bifacial points; the Itaparica tradition in the central-west / northwest, totally unifacial, whose only formal artifacts are limaces; and the "Lagoa Santa" industry, completely lacking any formal artifacts, composed mainly of small quartz flakes. Our data suggests that these differences are not related to subsistence or raw-material constraints, but rather to different cultural norms and transmission of strongly divergent chaînes opératoires. Such diversity in material culture, when viewed from a cultural transmission (CT) theory standpoint, seems at odds with a simple Clovis model as the origin of these three cultural traditions given the time elapsed since the first Clovis ages and the expected population structure of the early South American settlers.

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“…According to Politis et al (1995) and Politis and Gutiérrez (1998), bones of the glyptodont Doedicurus clavicaudatus yielded dates between 7,500 to 7,000 BP. Other authors suggested that some young contaminants could have rejuvenated the samples (Borrero et al, 1998). However, Politis and Gutiérrez (1998) even mention that a sample that gave an older date (LM-2-4; 12,350 ± 370 BP) was redated with a better treatment and gave younger dates (7,010 ± 100 and 7,510 ± 370 BP; Beukens, 1992, unpublished report fi de Politis and Gutiérrez, 1998).…”

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“…In South America, archeological evidence indicates that the continent was occupied by several distinct groups at the end of the Pleistocene (around 13,000-11,000 BP; Borrero et al, 1998). Some of the dated sites with humans for this period are: Taima Taima (ca.…”

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“…13,000 BP in southern Brazil, see Schmidt Dias and Jacobus (2002); Los Toldos (11 level of Los Toldos, Santa Cruz, Argentina, dated 12,600 ± 600 BP; Cardich (1977); Cueva del Lago Sofía, Santa Cruz, Argentina, dated 12,990 ± 490 BP and 11,570 ± 60 BP; Politis et al, 1995), Tres Arroyos (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, dated 11,800 ± 250 BP; Politis et al, 1995); Cerro La China and Cerro El Sombrero, Argentina, dated ca. 11,000-10,000 BP (Flegenheimer and Zárate, 1997); and the Piedra Museo site, Santa Cruz, Argentina, which corresponds to a time between 12,890 and 10,300 BP (Miotti, 1993;Miotti and Cattáneo, 1997;Borrero et al, 1998;Ramírez Rozzi et al, 2001). In the Holocene, there are many localities with cultural remains or human bones, some of which are of putative early Holocene age and include extinct fauna (see above).…”

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The Pleistocene–holocene Transition and Human Occupations in the Southern Cone of South America

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Geoarchaeological and Paleoenvironmental context of the human settlement in the Eastern Tandilia Range, Argentina

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