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Earliest hunters and gatherers of South America
Journal of world prehistory • 6 (2) • Published In 1992 • Pages: 145-204
By: Dillehay, Tom D., Ardila, Gerardo, Politis, Gustavo, Beltrão, Maria da Conceição de Moraes Coutinho.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides a brief overview of 41 archaeological sites in South America, concentrating on those that date between 13,000-10,000 BP (several of the lithic traditions continue into the Holocene). The authors emphasize the diversity of artifacts and economies found at the sites, some of which indicate an Archaic-like diet breadth before the generally recognized Archaic period. They contrast the archaeological record for South America with that for North America, and speculate on ways people first may have colonized the southern continent.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- Location
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- Diet
- Land use
- 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
- article
- 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
- 13,200-10,000 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
- Tom D. Dillehy, Gerardo Ardila Calderón, Gustavo Politis, and Maria da Conceicao de Moraes Coutinho Beltrão
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-204)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87655790
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians