One of the great debates about extinction is whether humans or climatic change caused the
demise of the Pleistocene megafauna. Evidence from paleontology, climatology …

Between fifty and ten thousand years ago, most large mammals became extinct everywhere
except Africa. Slow-breeding animals also were hard hit, regardless of size. This unusual …

The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such
equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European …

The rich fossil record of horses has made them a classic example of evolutionary processes.
However, while the overall picture of equid evolution is well known, the details are …

The time of appearance of a persistent and demographically-viable hunter-gatherer
population in late Pleistocene southern South America must be determined by evaluating …

During the latest Pleistocene-earliest Holocene, South American terrestrial vertebrate
faunas suffered one of the largest (and probably the youngest) extinction in the world for this …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

Here I consider the evidence for the interactions of humans and South American late
Pleistocene megafauna, a subject not usually covered in much detail in general …

The global blitzkrieg hypothesis explains differential rates of megafaunal extinction between
the world's landmasses in the late Quaternary based on a proposed leap in predation …

Latin American archaeology has been influenced by the world theoretical context, from
which it has developed original approaches. Currently, a culture-history conceptual …