INVESTIGADORES
POLITIS Gustavo Gabriel
capítulos de libros
Título:
Into de Americas: the earliest hunter-gatherers in an empty continent
Autor/es:
KORNFELD, MARCEL; GUSTAVO POLITIS
Libro:
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter Gatherers
Editorial:
Oxford University Press.
Referencias:
Lugar: Inglaterra; Año: 2014; p. 405 - 436
Resumen:
In this paper, the recent data about the peopling of the Americas is summarized and discussed. The Americas (both North and South) were occupied by anatomically modern humans at least by 11,000 BP (12,900 calendar years ago). Evidence of occupation prior to 11,000 BP is limited to few sites and most of them have been contested. An Asian origin of the First Americans is demonstrated through biological, linguistic, and archaeological data. Other regions, however, persist as potential points of origin or co-origin. By and immediately following 11,000 BP, cultural diversity is evident in material culture, subsistence, mobility, technology and other aspects of early American culture. The first hunter-gatherers that entered the Americas apparently adapted quickly to different and diverse environments from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and further became differentiated through settling into distinct habitats of the continents. These first groups set the stage for the subsequent 10,000 years of cultural evolution in the Americas.