Re-evaluation of the Archaeology of the Pali Aike Lava Field

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A new research project will focus on the archaeology of the Pali Aike Lava Field, Patagonia, Chile by a restudy of the collections obtained by Junius Bird between 1936 and 1970. These objects are currently housed at the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Field work will reopen some of the sites excavated by Bird and also search for new relevant sites to study the early occupation of Patagonia. Some results of these studies will be presented, including a reevaluation of the Pali Aike site, many times invoked as sustaining an early peopling of South America.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone

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Abstract Id(s): 22929