This paper is an attempt to place the dispute about early man in South America in historical
context and to review the most convincing and important evidence that has been put …

A Paleoindian campsite has been uncovered in stratified prehistoric deposits in Caverna da
Pedra Pintada at Monte Alegre in the Brazilian Amazon. Fifty-six radiocarbon dates on …

A sexually dimorphic cell group is described in the preoptic area of the human
hypothalamus. Morphometric analysis revealed that the volume of this nucleus is 2.5±0.6 …

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The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous
claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted …

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 …

This paper reports the compilation and initial analysis of a database of 14C dates from
archaeological sites in Argentina for the period 13,000 and 7000 14C BP. The spatial and …

The process of the initial human exploration and colonization of Fuego-Patagonia was
probably one of a slow filling in of empty spaces. The available information, coming mostly …

This paper discusses basic tendencies in the characteristics of the early archaeological
record corresponding to human occupation near the eastern flank of the Andean range, at …

Traditional syntheses of the archaeology of the late Pleistocene period in South America
have focused primarily on the peopling of the continent by North American cultural groups …