book chapter
South American regions: the Pacific and Caribbean sides of the continent
settlement of the Americas: a new prehistory • New York • Published In 2000 • Pages: 109-185
By: Dillehay, Tom D..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author provides an overview of the archaeological sites from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene to the west of the Andes in South America, concentrating on describing the artifacts, what the archaeological record says about the economy in the different regions, and the chronological record. Many tool types found in the late Pleistocene continue into the Archaic.
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- 13,000-9000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas D. Dillehay
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00027572
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paleo-Indians