essay
The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in southern South America
humans at the end of the ice age : the archaeology of the pleistocene-holocene transition • New York • Published In 1996 • Pages: 339-354
By: Borrero, Luis Alberto.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document covers the southern half of South America where, despite the lack of early dates, it is assumed humans entered the continent sometime between 13,000-12,000 BP. The author writes about the paleoenvironment and of the evidence for early sites and their dates, organized by geographical zone: west central or Peru; east central or Brazil; central [north-central] Chile and Argentina [also Uruguay]; and Patagonia or southern Chile and Argentina.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- External migration
- Diet
- Settlement patterns
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Early Paleo-Indian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- New World
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- New World
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 13,000-8000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southern South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Luis Alberto Borrero
- Includes bibliographical references (p. )
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 96008914
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians