Publisher Summary This chapter deals with the available archeological knowledge, building
a history of the peopling, the mobility of human groups and their relationship with the …

Seventy-two lactic acid producing bacterial isolates (excluding streptococci) were cultured
from the gastrointestinal tract of six horses. Two of the horses were orally dosed with raftilose …

This paper focuses on the analysis of the economic aspects of rock art production. Such
analysis is based on a theoretical perspective that widens the narrow association between …

Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the
continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and …

This paper aims to link the production of rock paintings in Los Toldos (Argentina) to the
human use of the locality in the context of the long term process of the peopling of …

The time when only biologists studied evolution has long since passed. Accepting evolution
requires us to come to terms with the fact that everything that exists must be the outcome of …

Time, place, and identity are some of the main issues archaeologists try to confront through
the empirical and analytical study of visual arts. Archaeological evidence is usually debris of …

The main aim of this paper is to evaluate if certain processes that were documented in a
specific area of Central-Southern Patagonia during the Late Holocene were also registered …

This chapter develops a theoretical framework focused on the materiality of rock art. It
argues against a Cartesian ontology that locates art in an exclusively ideal/symbolic realm …

The majority of sites and regions with rock art worldwide have been re-used throughout
different periods of time. Sometimes a large number of motifs were executed in a brief space …