Research in Zooarchaeology of South America has considerately increased in recent decades. Many South American archaeologists and biologists began to give greater attention to fauna remains recovered from archaeological ...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of wildlife resources that human populations which inhabited the Paraná River floodplain during the late Holocene carried out. To that end, zooarchaeological information from ...

This special volume brings together works that present cases of studies that combine analysis of stable isotopes and zooarchaeology in different areas of Chile and Argentina, with special emphasis on the latter. These ...

This paper shows the preliminary results of the zooarchaeological analysis of Dupuy Rockshelter (La Toma, San Luis Province, Argentina). This rock shelter has evidence of Late Holocene (Last Millennium) human occupation ...

Birds remains recovered from archaeological contexts may or may not to be the product of human activities. No matter how they reached the site, such record provides valuable information. If bird remains are product of human ...

We use published zooarchaeological evidence to discuss the various hypotheses concerning the past distribution of huemuls in Patagonia, southern South America. We then use these data to evaluate the interactions between ...

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 ...

In order to assess the role of pinnipeds in prehistoric subsistence of hunteregatherers from northern Patagonia, traditional osteometric studies based on modern collections of Arctocephalus australis (Aa) and Otaria flavescens ...

This paper presents the zooarchaeological research carried out on Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) bone remains recovered at Quebrada del Real 1 (ca. 7400–360 years BP), an archaeological site located in the Sierras of ...

Changes in the exploitation of resources among prehistoric hunter-gatherer-fishers of the Beagle Channel (Southern South America) are examined in this paper. Archaeological investigations show the prevalence of maritime ...