Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) impact hypothesis posits that fragments of a large,
disintegrating asteroid/comet struck North America, South America, Europe, and western …

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 …

Artiodactyl prey species of Chile, especially guanacos (Lama guanicoe), are reported to be
very susceptible to predation by pack‐hunting feral dogs. It has been previously suggested …

The present study describes the discovery of a singular sedimentary structure corresponding
to an ichnite that was excavated at the paleo-archaeological site Pilauco (Osorno, Chile) …

We present the results of the excavations and analyses of the diverse and exceptional
archaeological assemblage of Taguatagua 3, a new late Pleistocene site located in the …

In this study we used a multidisciplinary approach, coupling morphological, geological,
geochemical, and statistical analyses to investigate the provenance of rhyodacitic and …

A new assemblage of fossil beetles of Upper Pleistocene age, dated between 15,754 and
14,697 cal yr BP, is described and interpreted based on cluster analysis. In this study, we …

Abstract The Orce Basin Archaeological Zone (OBAZ; Granada, Spain) is well known
because it contains some of the most important Early Pleistocene archaeo-palaeontological …

Investigations of the first South American settlements have revealed great environmental
diversity, to which the first humans adapted as they colonized the continent. In this chapter …

Since the discovery of Venta Micena in 1976 until now, the Orce archaeopalaeontological
sites (Guadix Baza basin) in the northern part of Granada have contributed significantly to …