Distribution parameters of guanaco (Lama guanicoe), pampas deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus) and marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus) in Central Argentina: Archaeological and paleoenvironmental implications

Twenty-first century approaches to ancient problems: Climate and society

“…MaxEnt and GARP have been used in archaeology to estimate past spatial extent of human populations (45,51) and the animals they consumed (52,53). For example, a study on the extent of the wild progenitor of maize (Teosinte sp.)…”

Exploitation of faunal resources by hunter-gatherers in the center of the Pampa grasslands during the Holocene: The archaeofauna of the Laguna Cabeza de Buey 2 site (San Carlos de Bolivar, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

“…With respect to small mammals are caviomorph rodents (e.g., Lagostomus maximus and Myocastor coypus), armadillos (e.g., Chaetophractus villosus, Dasypus hybridus, and Zaedyus pichiy), and carnivores (e.g., Leopardus geoffroyi, Lycalopex gymnocercus, and Conepatus chinga) (Redford and Eisenberg, 1992). Today, some medium and large native mammals (>20 kg), such as guanaco (Lama guanicoe), pampean deer (Ozotoceros bezoarticus), and puma (Puma concolor), are absent in most of the region, although they were common in the Holocene (see Martínez and Guti errez, 2004;Politis et al, 2011). Also, there is a large number of small birds (<20 kg), the major species belonging to the Tinamidae (tinamous), Anatidae (ducks and swans), Rallidae (coots, moorhens, and burritos), Podicipedidae (grebes), and Ardeidae (herons) Families (Darrieu and Camperi, 2001).…”

“…Research of the economy of hunter-gatherers has made remarkable advances in some areas (e.g., Interserrana, Tandilia, North, South, and Salado Depression) of the Pampean region due to the increase in the number of sites investigated and the consequent generation of faunal data in the last three decades (e.g., Quintana and Mazzanti, 2001;Martínez and Guti errez, 2004;Gonz alez, 2005;Acosta et al, 2010;Stoessel, 2012;Frontini, 2013;Alvarez, 2014a). At the same time, zooarchaeological studies in some areas of this region (e.g., west) have had little development as a result of the lack of systematic research (see exceptions in Politis et al, 2012;Alvarez, 2014b). Recently, we conducted an excavation at the Laguna Cabeza de Buey 2, a multi-component archaeological site located in the western Pampean region of Argentina.…”

Preliminary zooarchaeological analysis of Dupuy Rockshelter (La Toma, San Luis Province, Argentina): Faunal and paleoenvironmental tendencies related to geoarchaeological and phytoarchaeological evidence

“…An important issue in zooarchaeological research of ecotonal areas between the Pampas and Sierras Centrales is to corroborate the population dynamics of Lama guanicoe through the archaeological record; verify if the population of Lama guanicoe decreased or retreated to other regions through both pre-and post-conquest times, and if the exploitation of this species was replaced or sustained by incorporating other available species (Politis et al, 2011). …”