Abstract In the 1970s, Paul Martin proposed that big game hunters armed with fluted
projectile points colonized the Americas and drove the extinction of megafauna. Around fifty …

South America is the continent with the largest amount of megafauna extinctions at the end
of the Pleistocene (∼ 50 genera), but the empirical evidence of megafauna exploitation by …

Proboscideans may have been important prey for Pleistocene foragers in the Americas.
Dozens of proboscidean sites have been claimed to show evidence of human involvement …

Megamammals constituted an important component in the Pleistocene faunal communities
of South America. Paleobiological and paleoecological studies involving different …

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

The contemporary mammalian communities of South America were defined by the rise of the
Isthmus of Panama and by the deep climatic oscillations during the Pleistocene …

Abstract The Muaco and Taima-Taima sites, in Falcón State of northwestern Venezuela, are
among the earliest sites of human occupation in South America containing artifacts …

Six vertebrae (one cervical, three articulated thoracic, and two lumbar) and an incomplete
thoracic neural spine from a new late Pleistocene site at Anolaima, Cundinamarca …

In recent decades, a significant number of Pleistocene (ca. 2.6 million years–10,000 years
ago) open-air and cave sites yielding elephant or mammoth bones in direct association with …

Abstract The Santa Elina rock shelter (Central Brazil) stands out with two human occupation
layers with ground sloth fossil remains from the Late Pleistocene. Here, we explore the …