In Quebrada de Los Corrales, located in northwestern Argentina, a local economic transitional process took place between ca. 3800 and 2000 BP, during which groups of hunter-gatherers incorporated agriculture and pastoralism. ...

Previous studies revealed a high frequency of porotic hyperostosis in hunter-gatherer populations from southern Patagonia. Nevertheless, the systematic recovery of new burials with detailed archaeological and paleodietary ...

The main objective of this paper is to assess paleodiets and subsistence patterns in hunter-gatherer groups of the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition during the Middle Holocene (ca. 6000–4100 years BP). Using a multivariate ...

The aim of this work is to explore general trends and intra-site variability in human paleodiet from Médano Petroquímica, a burial site created by pre-Hispanic hunter-gatherers and located in the southwest of La Pampa ...

Along the Pacific coast of South America, including what is now Chilean territory, the coastal zone has been exploited since the earliest peopling of the continent and marine resources played an important role in the ...

We evaluated and discussed the temporal changes in the intensity and type of exploitation of marine resources – mollusks, fish, birds, and pinnipeds – by hunter-gatherers that inhabited the north-central Patagonian Atlantic ...