Gustavo G. Politis is Director of the Institute of Archaeological and Paleontological Research of the Pampean Quaternary. A scholar of the archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of South American hunter-gatherers, he is the author of six books and recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Luis A. Borrero is Researcher Emeritus at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and Professor Emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires, as well as International Member of the American Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in vertebrate taphonomy and hunter-gatherer archaeology, particularly the peopling of South America.

'This impressively researched, well-executed achievement provides up-to-date research and current interpretations, making calibrated radiocarbon dates and isotopic studies of diet available for the first time … Essential.' C. C. Kolb, CHOICE

• 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Resources, plants, prey and lithics; 4. The early peopling. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene; 5. The middle Holocene (-8200-4200 CAL BP; -7500-3800 BP); 6. The late Holocene diversification; 7. Discussion and final remarks.

Gustavo G. Politis is Director of the Institute of Archaeological and Paleontological Research of the Pampean Quaternary. A scholar of the archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of South American hunter-gatherers, he is the author of six books and recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Luis A. Borrero is Researcher Emeritus at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and Professor Emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires, as well as International Member of the American Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in vertebrate taphonomy and hunter-gatherer archaeology, particularly the peopling of South America.

'This impressively researched, well-executed achievement provides up-to-date research and current interpretations, making calibrated radiocarbon dates and isotopic studies of diet available for the first time … Essential.' C. C. Kolb, CHOICE

• 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Resources, plants, prey and lithics; 4. The early peopling. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene; 5. The middle Holocene (-8200-4200 CAL BP; -7500-3800 BP); 6. The late Holocene diversification; 7. Discussion and final remarks.

Gustavo G. Politis is Director of the Institute of Archaeological and Paleontological Research of the Pampean Quaternary. A scholar of the archaeology and ethnoarchaeology of South American hunter-gatherers, he is the author of six books and recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Luis A. Borrero is Researcher Emeritus at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and Professor Emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires, as well as International Member of the American Academy of Sciences. He is a specialist in vertebrate taphonomy and hunter-gatherer archaeology, particularly the peopling of South America.

'This impressively researched, well-executed achievement provides up-to-date research and current interpretations, making calibrated radiocarbon dates and isotopic studies of diet available for the first time … Essential.' C. C. Kolb, CHOICE

• 1. Introduction; 2. Historical background; 3. Resources, plants, prey and lithics; 4. The early peopling. The late Pleistocene-early Holocene; 5. The middle Holocene (-8200-4200 CAL BP; -7500-3800 BP); 6. The late Holocene diversification; 7. Discussion and final remarks.