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THE EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION OF TWO SOUTHERN DESERTS: CASE STUDIES FROM THE PUNA AND PATAGONIA (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Pintar. Nora Franco. Jorge G. Martínez.

The peopling of South America is a subject that has been discussed from many angles, including timing, migration routes, genetics, among others, and at various scales of analysis. In this paper we take on a supra-regional scale of analysis and examine stone tool assemblages from a series of Pleistocene/Holocene transition and Early-Middle Holocene sites located in two desert areas on the eastern side of the Andes –Patagonia and the high Puna. Our objective is to assess how these lithic...