People and Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology
edited by Rafael Suarez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
University of Utah Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-1-60781-646-1 | Cloth: 978-1-60781-645-4 Library of Congress Classification E61 Dewey Decimal Classification 970.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This edited volume, which emerged from a symposium organized at the 2014 SAA meeting in Austin, Texas, covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English. Chapters are organized south to north in an attempt to shake the usual north-centric focus of Pleistocene–Early Holocene archaeological studies and to bring to the forefront the many fascinating discoveries being made in southern latitudes. The diversity of approaches over a large geographic expanse generates discussion that prompts a re-evaluation of predominant paradigms about how the expansion of Homo sapiens in the Western Hemisphere took place. Those who work in Paleoamerican studies will embrace this book for its new data and for its comparative look at the Americas.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rafael Suárez is a professor of archaeology at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, and a researcher within the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). His research focuses on the lifeways and adaptations of South America’s Paleoamerican hunter-gatherers and Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene lithic technology in southeast South America.
Ciprian F. Ardelean is a Romanian-born archaeologist who has been working at Mexico’s University of Zacatecas since 2001. He has conducted field investigations on the ancient Mayans and currently leads research projects on early human occupation in the arid regions of northcentral Mexico, focusing on the Pleistocene archaeological record.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface: An Upside-Down View Rafael Suárez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
1. The Cave at the End of the World: Cueva del Medio and the Early Colonization of Southern South America Fabiana M. Martin, Dominique Todisco, Joel Rodet, Francisco J. Prevosti, Manuel San Román, Flavia Morello, Charles Stern, and Luis A . Borrero
2. Lithics and Early Human Occupations at the Southern End of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia, Argentina) Nora Viviana Franco and Lucas Vetrisano
3. A Systematic Strategy for Assessing the Early Surface Archaeological Record of Continental Aisén, Central Western Patagonia César Méndez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Omar Reyes, Antonio Maldonado, and Juan-Luis García
4. Early Human Occupation in the Southeastern Plains of South America Rafael Suárez
5. Mobility and Human Dispersion during the Peopling of Northwest South America between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene Francisco Javier Aceituno-Bocanegra and Antonio Uriarte
6. The Clovis-Like and Fishtail Occupations of Southern Mexico and Central America: A Reappraisal Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Patricia Pérez-Martínez, and Ximena Ulloa-Montemayor
7. Mexican Prehistory and Chiquihuite Cave (Northern Zacatecas): Studying Pleistocene Human Occupation as an Exercise of Skepticism Ciprian F. Ardelean, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Juan I. Macías-Quintero, Jennifer Watling, and Mónica G. Ponce-González
8. Stone Tool Technology at the Gault Site: Exploring Technology, Patterns, and the Early Human Occupation of North America Thomas J. Williams, Nancy Velchoff, Michael B. Collins, and Bruce A . Bradley
9. The End of an Era? Early Holocene Paleoindian Caribou Hunting in a Great Lakes Glacial Refugium Ashley K. Lemke and John M. O’Shea
10. Late Pleistocene Occupation(s) in North America J. M. Adovasio and David R . Pedler
11. Midwestern Paleoindians, Stone Tools, and Proboscidean Extinctions Michael J. Shott
12. Where Tides of Genes Perpetual Ebb and Flow: What DNA Evidence Tells Us about the Peopling of the Americas Theodore G. Schurr
13. Comments and Discussion Tom D. Dillehay
Contributors
Index
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People and Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archaeology
edited by Rafael Suarez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
University of Utah Press, 2018 eISBN: 978-1-60781-646-1 Cloth: 978-1-60781-645-4
This edited volume, which emerged from a symposium organized at the 2014 SAA meeting in Austin, Texas, covers recent Paleoamerican research and site excavations from Patagonia to Canada. Contributors discuss the peopling of the Americas, early American assemblages, lifeways, and regional differences. Many scholars present current data previously unavailable in English. Chapters are organized south to north in an attempt to shake the usual north-centric focus of Pleistocene–Early Holocene archaeological studies and to bring to the forefront the many fascinating discoveries being made in southern latitudes. The diversity of approaches over a large geographic expanse generates discussion that prompts a re-evaluation of predominant paradigms about how the expansion of Homo sapiens in the Western Hemisphere took place. Those who work in Paleoamerican studies will embrace this book for its new data and for its comparative look at the Americas.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rafael Suárez is a professor of archaeology at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo, Uruguay, and a researcher within the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). His research focuses on the lifeways and adaptations of South America’s Paleoamerican hunter-gatherers and Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene lithic technology in southeast South America.
Ciprian F. Ardelean is a Romanian-born archaeologist who has been working at Mexico’s University of Zacatecas since 2001. He has conducted field investigations on the ancient Mayans and currently leads research projects on early human occupation in the arid regions of northcentral Mexico, focusing on the Pleistocene archaeological record.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface: An Upside-Down View Rafael Suárez and Ciprian F. Ardelean
1. The Cave at the End of the World: Cueva del Medio and the Early Colonization of Southern South America Fabiana M. Martin, Dominique Todisco, Joel Rodet, Francisco J. Prevosti, Manuel San Román, Flavia Morello, Charles Stern, and Luis A . Borrero
2. Lithics and Early Human Occupations at the Southern End of the Deseado Massif (Patagonia, Argentina) Nora Viviana Franco and Lucas Vetrisano
3. A Systematic Strategy for Assessing the Early Surface Archaeological Record of Continental Aisén, Central Western Patagonia César Méndez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Omar Reyes, Antonio Maldonado, and Juan-Luis García
4. Early Human Occupation in the Southeastern Plains of South America Rafael Suárez
5. Mobility and Human Dispersion during the Peopling of Northwest South America between the Late Pleistocene and the Early Holocene Francisco Javier Aceituno-Bocanegra and Antonio Uriarte
6. The Clovis-Like and Fishtail Occupations of Southern Mexico and Central America: A Reappraisal Guillermo Acosta-Ochoa, Patricia Pérez-Martínez, and Ximena Ulloa-Montemayor
7. Mexican Prehistory and Chiquihuite Cave (Northern Zacatecas): Studying Pleistocene Human Occupation as an Exercise of Skepticism Ciprian F. Ardelean, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Juan I. Macías-Quintero, Jennifer Watling, and Mónica G. Ponce-González
8. Stone Tool Technology at the Gault Site: Exploring Technology, Patterns, and the Early Human Occupation of North America Thomas J. Williams, Nancy Velchoff, Michael B. Collins, and Bruce A . Bradley
9. The End of an Era? Early Holocene Paleoindian Caribou Hunting in a Great Lakes Glacial Refugium Ashley K. Lemke and John M. O’Shea
10. Late Pleistocene Occupation(s) in North America J. M. Adovasio and David R . Pedler
11. Midwestern Paleoindians, Stone Tools, and Proboscidean Extinctions Michael J. Shott
12. Where Tides of Genes Perpetual Ebb and Flow: What DNA Evidence Tells Us about the Peopling of the Americas Theodore G. Schurr
13. Comments and Discussion Tom D. Dillehay
Contributors
Index
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