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Contributions of Archaeological Research in Panama to the Early Human History of the American Tropics (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Ranere. Richard Cooke.

There has been a sea change in our understanding of the early human occupation in the tropical lowlands of the Americas over the last 4 decades. Research carried out in Panama has contributed to this change in a number of ways. First, evidence of Terminal Pleistocene hunter-gatherer populations using both Clovis technology and presumably later fluted fishtail projectile point technology were recovered in tropical forest as well as open woodland habitats. Importantly, the pioneering analyses of...