Mauricio Massone

THE PLEISTOCENE–HOLOCENE TRANSITION AND HUMAN OCCUPATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN CONE OF SOUTH AMERICA

Abstract The archaeology of the Pleistocene–Holocene Transition in the Pampas and Fuego-Patagonia is analyzed in light of the results obtained at recently excavated archaeological sites. These sites offer detailed artifactual, faunistic, chronological, and paleoecological information. Results from paleoecological research performed off site are also presented. Changes in climate, vegetation, and faunal composition are recorded, but the archaeological assemblages do not exhibit any clear-cut correspondent changes.

EVALUACIÓN DE LA MODALIDAD CULTURAL FELL 1 EN MAGALLANES

Se presenta una evaluacion de la modalidad cultural Fell 1 de Magallanes y sus relaciones extrarregionales. Se revisa la historia de la investigacion sobre el tema, los diferentes aspectos que le dan identidad a esta modalidad cultural, su rango cronologico y su relacion con el paisaje del Pleistoceno Final y de la transicion Pleistoceno-Holoceno. Finalmente, se analizan los principales problemas de interpretacion de los contextos Fell 1 y se proyectan algunas lineas de accion para orientar la investigacion futura en relacion al tema

Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encountered by the first European visitors in the sixteenth century. The study also provides a striking example of interaction across challenging natural barriers.

DOMESTICACIÓN DE PLANTAS Y ANIMALES EN LA ARAUCANÍA: DATOS, METODOLOGÍAS Y PROBLEMAS

Resumen es: El problema de la domesticacion de plantas y animales en la Araucania no ha recibido, por diversos motivos, una adecuada atencion de parte de los especia...

PRESENCIA DE RHEIDAE EN TIERRA DEL FUEGO DURANTE LA TRANSICIÓN PLEISTOCENO-HOLOCENO. IMPLICANCIAS BIOGEOGRÁFICAS Y PALEOECOLÓGICAS

*** ABSTRACT Preliminary information related with a taxon-date of 9.960 ± 50 years BP for Rheidae will be introduced in this paper. This date was obtained on a Rheidae first phalanx from the Tres Arroyos 1 site, north of Tierra del Fuego, Chile. Biogeographical, palaeoecological and archaeological implications are discussed.

NUEVAS EVIDENCIAS DE CAZADORES RECOLECTORES TERRESTRES DEL HOLOCENO MEDIO Y TARDÍO EN TIERRA DEL FUEGO: EL SITIO CABO MONMOUTH 20

The Cabo Monmouth 20 site represents new evidence of Middle and Late Holocene occupations (ca. 5.000 years BP) for the north of Isla Grande, Tierra del Fuego. In this paper we evaluate archaeo- logical evidence from a test pit excavation, synthesize stratigraphic and contextual data, and present a new radiocarbon date (5,520 + 50 years BP) on shell material of anthropic origin. The latter confirms the antiquity of the site, highlighting the presence of archaeological deposits in a co-eval palaeosol.

First Record of Smilodon Lund (Felidae, Machairodontinae) in Tierra del Fuego Island (Chile)

In this contribution we describe the first record of Smilodon for Tierra del Fuego Island, and discuss its relevance.