Evidence of Late-Pleistocene Monte Formation in Central West Argentina

EDUARDO MARTINEZ CARRETERO; ALEJANDRO GARCÍA; MARÍA DACAR,

Current Research in the Pleistocene

Center for the Study of the First Americans

Lugar: Texas; Año: 2009 vol. 26 p. 39 - 41

8755-898X

The present knowledge on late-Quaternary environmental change in subtropical central-western Argentina is fragmentary, particularly because dates and organic records are scarce (Martínez Carretero et al. 2004), pollen analyses are mostly restricted to the Holocene, and a general model of Pleistocene glacial advances is not yet available. Within this context, a paleoecological record obtained from recent stratigraphic excavations at the Gruta del Indio site (34° 45 S, 68° 22 W, 660 m a.s.l.) provides important evidence of paleoenvironments of the area, particularly for the late Pleistocene (García 2003; García and Lagiglia 1999). S, 68° 22 W, 660 m a.s.l.) provides important evidence of paleoenvironments of the area, particularly for the late Pleistocene (García 2003; García and Lagiglia 1999).