The initial human settlement of Northwest South America during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition: Synthesis and perspectives

Documenting Early Lithic Technologies in South America

“…Starting from the north in Panama, the analysis indicated movement into the continent could have occurred east of the Andes, and not along the Pacific coast (see also Sauer 1944 andMagnin et al 2012 for similar interpretations). The occurrence of great linguistic diversity in the general region, and archaeological evidence suggesting dispersals along large river systems like that provided by Aceituno and Rojas-Mora herein, provide some support for this possibility (see also Aceituno et al 2013;Dahl et al 2011;Dias and Bueno 2013:348-350;Miotti and Magnin 2012). Given fluctuations in sea level that were occurring during the Late Pleistocene, the coastline may have been perceived as an unstable environment, at least during some periods Anderson and Bissett 2015).…”

“…To do this will involve making the vast amount of well documented artifact, radiocarbon, and paleosubsistence data our profession has been collecting more readily accessible to researchers and the public alike, so they can appreciate it, work with it and contribute to it, and come up with new ideas and interpretations. A radiocarbon database for South America is now being developed, compiling earlier efforts, and individual datasets are available from many countries both in published form and in associated online supporting materials (e.g., Aceituno et al 2013;Bueno, Prates et al 2013;Bueno, Dias and Steele 2013;Capriles and Albarracin-Jordan 2013;Cooke et al 2013;López Mazz 2013;Martínez et al 2013;Méndez 2013;Prates et al 2013;Rademaker et al 2013;Steele and Politis 2009). The same thing is needed for artifact and assemblage information, and all of these various files should be linked and indexed.…”

The role of plants in the early human settlement of Northwest South America

“…The aim of this paper is to present a compilation of archaeobotanical and paleoecological data suggesting that, along with strategies such as hunting and perhaps fishing, plant resources were an important part of the adaptive strategies that enabled human settlement and, possibly, the incipient construction of cultural traditions that spread through Colombia at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (ca.10,500 BP) until the early Holocene (ca. 8000 BP) (Aceituno et al, 2013).…”

Os padrões de sepultamento do sítio arqueológico Lapa do Santo (Holoceno Inicial, Brasil)

“…De toda forma, durante o Holoceno Inicial a maior parte das diferentes paisagens do continente americano já se encontrava ocupada por grupos que estavam bem adaptados a elas (Dias, 2004;Aceituno et al, 2013;Capriles e Albarracin-Jordan, 2013;Martínez et al, 2013;Mazz, 2013;Melgar, 2013;Prates et al, 2013;Rademaker et al, 2013). Tais grupos são relativamente bem estudados no que se refere a seus padrões de mobilidade e suas estratégias de subsistência, sendo caracterizados como forrageiros generalistas, com uma forte ênfase na exploração de recursos animais, vegetais e aquáticos, conforme disponibilidade dos mesmos (Kipnis, 1998(Kipnis, , 2002Scheinsohn, 2003;Borrero, 2015).…”