South American Zooarchaeology

LUIS M. DEL PAPA; FERNANDO J. FERNÁNDEZ

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2016 vol. 391 p. 1 - 2

1040-6182

This volume is the result of the session organized by Luis Manuel del Papa and Fernando Julian Fernández entitled South American Zooarchaeology, presented during the ?12th International Conference of ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology)? in San Rafael, Mendoza Province, Argentina, 22 ̶ 27 September, 2014. This conference was the first organized in South America and the second in Latin America, after the 10th International Conference of ICAZ developed in Mexico in 2006. Here, we present a series of papers focus on variety of topics concerning zooarchaeology of South America, including fishing strategies in central Argentina and north of Chile, fish bone diagenesis in south Brazil, paleoenvironmental reconstruction in west and south of Argentina using small mammal remains or pollen from coprolites of extinct megafauna, subsistence systems of hunter ̶ gatherers of north, central and south of Argentina, and the use of modern analogues through osteometric and taphonomic analysis in central and south Argentina.