Zooarchaeology of South America [Paperback]

Among other important considerations, South America offers scientists an outstanding biodiversity, an excellent preservation in some particular areas and taphonomic challenges in others, a relatively long temporal depth, and a great variety of bio-cultural themes to investigate. This volume presents 12 contributions that takes the reader on a journey through a vast continent; a journey that starts at the Equator and reaches its southern tip. One in which, over great periods of time, humans and other animals have participated together in a variety of processes and particular histories. Contents: 1. Introduction: An overview of South American zooarchaeology (Guillermo L. Mengoni Go??alons); 2. Guanaco and huemul in Patagonian hunter-gatherers diet (Mariana E. De Nigris); 3. Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Pampean Wetlands, Argentina (Daniel M. Loponte and Alejandro A. Acosta); 4. Arqueofaunas en sociedades complejas: la ganader??a prehisp??nica de cam??lidos en los Andes (Noroeste Argentino)( Celina M. Madero); 5. Tendencias en la explotaci??n humana de la fauna durante el Pleistoceno final y Holoceno en la Regi??n Pampeana (Argentina)(Gustavo Mart??nez and Mar??a A. Guti??rrez); 6. Aproximaciones zooarqueol??gicas al pasado de Ais??n continental (Patagonia Central Chilena)( Francisco Mena, H??ctor Vel??squez, Valentina Trejo and Juan C. Torres-Mura); 7. Mammal exploitation in the insular environments of southern South America (A. Sebasti??n Mu??oz); 8. Los cam??lidos en el antiguo Per??, un balance desde la arqueozoolog??a (Denise Pozzi-Escot); 9. ??tude des vert??br??s du site arch??ologique Rs-Tq-58, Montenegro, RS, Br??sil: aspects arch??ozoologiques et taphonomiques (Alb??rico Nogueira de Queiroz); 10. Vertebrate fauna from El Az??car 30, Ecuador (Elizabeth J. Reitz and Mar??a Masucci); 11. El desarrollo de la zooarqueolog??a en Ecuador: situaci??n actual y perspectivas (Amelia M. S??nchez Mosquera); 12. Neotropical zooarchaelC˜