Based on a bibliographic survey, this paper reviews the state of the art of actualistic taphonomicinformation of different autochthonous mammalian carnivores in the southern Neotropics. Thecharacteristics of this corpus ...

Actualistic studies on mammalian carnivore taphonomy in southern South America are reviewed here, including pumas, small cats, foxes, and other, smaller carnivores. Patterns for different carnivore taxa and their variation ...

Many cultural and natural processes form the archaeological record. Taphonomy, the study of the transition of organic matter from living contexts (the biosphere) to geological contexts (the lithosphere), aids in understanding ...

Actualistic studies of small mammal taphonomy usually describe interspecific bone patterns of contemporary agents of bone deposition. These studies assume that each agent produces one specific bone pattern. Here we examine ...

This chapter presents the application of actualistic taphonomy to the study of one of the inorganic remains produced by hominins since 3 million year BP up to historical times: lithic artifacts. As rocks are among the most ...

This short article reviews the state of the art of actualistic taphonomicresearch in Argentina. Taphonomic studies with actualistic approaches are undergoing substantial developments in our country. Several topics are being ...

This work analyzes a modern bone concentration at Cueva 7, in Los Toldos archaeological locality, aspart of the taphonomic studies that we have carried out in the northeast of the Central Plateau of SantaCruz province ...

When the young Charles Darwin explored the Atlantic coast of southern South America, he was impressed by its fossils —as he wrote in the first paragraph of the Origin of Species (1859)— and the magnitude of its “wide and ...