Cazadores-recolectores tempranos en los pastizales pampeanos de Argentina: Una síntesis del poblamiento

MESSINEO, PABLO G.; PAL, NÉLIDA

Boletin Americanista

University of Barcelona

Lugar: Barcelona; Año: 2020 p. 9 - 38

0520-4100

This article presents a synthesis of the investigations developed in the early sites of the Pampas grasslands of Argentina. The aim is to explain how was the dynamic of the peopling during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene by hunter-gatherer groups who occupied this landscape. To this end, we tackle and discuss various topics that has generated huge debates: the time of dispersion and environmental changes; colonization and occupation of space; subsistence patterns; technological practices; mobility and biological variation of human populations. Archaeological, paleoecological and genetic evidence indicates that human migration and colonization of the Pampas grasslands was a complex and heterogeneous process. The oldest data support an initial population of ~14,000 years ago cal BP, after the last maximum ice age.