Le site paleo-indien de Piedra Museo (Patagonie). Sa contribution au debat sur le premier peuplement du continent americain
The Piedra Museo site (Santa Cruz, Argentina), excavated over the past nine years has yielded a rich archaeological record, which contributes to the discussion on the first peopling of the Americas. We present here a new study of the site, based on an analysis of the stratigraphy, spatial distributi...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2000 |
| Country: | Argentina |
| Institution: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repository: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Language: | French |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/71796 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/71796 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | First Peopling Pleistocene South America Taphonomy https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 |
| Summary: | The Piedra Museo site (Santa Cruz, Argentina), excavated over the past nine years has yielded a rich archaeological record, which contributes to the discussion on the first peopling of the Americas. We present here a new study of the site, based on an analysis of the stratigraphy, spatial distribution or archaeological remains, bone taphonomy, and discussion of new AMS-14C dates. We conclude that remains of extinct species with cut-marks from the lower levels are contemporaneous of stone tools and cores from the same levels. This demonstrates that humans were present in the southern part of Patagonia around 10 300 and 11 100 years BP and suggests that hunting of large mammals was a part of their subsistence strategies. (C) 2000 Academie des sciences/Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. |
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