essay
Current archaeological evidence of Late-Pleistocene settlement of South America
new perspectives on the first americans • College Station • Published In 2004 • Pages: 27-34
By: Gruhn, Ruth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author summarizes about a dozen sites in South America with pre-Clovis dates. Several stratified sites have dates earlier than 35,000 radiocarbon years BP, indicating an early colonization of the New World.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Dating methods in archaeology
- External migration
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- 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
- 40,000-11,000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ruth Gruhn
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-34)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians