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2025

Editorial Cuadernos de Sofía RCAP, 19, enero-junio 2025 70 artrópodos en el estado de Coahuila partiendo de un número limitado de figuras y sitios, fruto de recorridos iniciales que progresivamente se irán completando.

2025, Science Advances

Diet played a key role in human evolution, making the study of past diet and subsistence strategies a crucial research topic within paleoanthropology. Lipids are a crucial resource for hunter-gatherers, especially for foragers whose diet is based heavily on animal foods. Recent foragers have expended substantial amounts of energy to obtain this resource, including time-consuming production of bone grease, a resource intensification practice thus far only documented for Upper Paleolithic populations. We present archaeological data from the lake landscape of Neumark-Nord (Germany), where Last Interglacial Neanderthals processed at least 172 large mammals at a water's edge site. Their (partial) carcasses were transported to this location for the extraction of within-bone nutrients, particularly bone grease. This "fat factory" constitutes a well-documented case of grease rendering predating the Upper Paleolithic, with the special task location devoted to extraction of nutritionally important lipids forming an important addition to our knowledge of Neanderthal adaptations.

2025, Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology

Two unusually large cryptocrystalline silicate crescentics were found while cataloging Maturango Museum collections in the summer of 2015: one from the El Paso Mountains in eastern Kern County, the second from the Panamint Range in southern Inyo County. Both are broken, apparently in manufacture, but when intact were unusually large, probably exceeding 100 mm in length. Both are lunate crescent preforms, and show heat-treating. Their size is too large to be "transverse projectile points," but they may have been cutting tools or harvesting implements such as finger sickles. Crescents are typically Paleoindian temporal markers, and their (re) discovery suggests the value of examining museum collections.

2025, Aeon Magazine

Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world.

2025, Arqueología

Resumen El crecimiento demográfico frecuentemente es vinculado con el incremento en la representación taxonómica de especies de pequeño tamaño en contextos arqueológicos de Pampa y Patagonia del Holoceno tardío. En el noroeste de Chubut y... more

2025, Archaeometry

Strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) measured in human skeletal material can increase one's understanding of the residential behaviour and resource‐acquisition strategies of past populations. The paper maps bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr variation in 183 plant and soil samples across Cambodia. Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr, as measured in plants, differs significantly between four major geological units. The data set will support future investigations of skeletal material from Cambodian archaeological sites. Baseline 87Sr/86Sr data should be applied judiciously to skeletal populations, and in concert with other lines of evidence, to identify potential geographical outliers rather than to ascribe specific locations from which individuals may have moved.

2025, Revista Argentina de Antropología Biológica

La sacralización de la quinta vértebra lumbar corresponde a una patología escasamente reportada en la literatura bioarqueológica de las poblaciones del Norte Grande de Chile. En este artículo, se presentan dos casos observados en grupos prehispánicos de la costa desértica de la región de Antofagasta, distanciados tanto espacial como cronológicamente; uno de ellos corresponde al caso más temprano de esta anomalía ósea para el norte de Chile. El diagnóstico de esta condición fue realizada a través de criterios discriminantes morfológicos que permitieron la clasificación de forma y orientación de los rasgos patológicos observados. Considerando la asociación a factores genéticos que posee la manifestación de esta patología, junto con la descripción histórica de las formas de elaboración de alianzas matrimoniales que tenían los habitantes del área de estudio al momento de contacto hispano-indígena, en este trabajo exploramos la posibilidad de que su aparición pueda ser el resultado de pr...

2025, Universitat de Barcelona

En el presente trabajo se exponen los resultados experimentales realizados sobre la medula ósea de huesos largos sobre muestras modernas de vaca (Bos taurus) sometida a diferentes temperaturas de cocción. El trabajo compila los análisis posibles para reconocer el tratamiento térmico sobre este tipo de material en especies de tamaño medio a grande en contextos arqueológicos, e incluye el análisis de variables estándar y de coloración. Los resultados obtenidos proponen diferentes criterios tafonómicos que pueden ser aplicados en el registro arqueológico para observar el procesamiento de este recurso por parte de las sociedades cazadores-recolectoras del paleolítico. El uso de estos parámetros permite diferenciar algunos tipos de tratamientos y características tafonómicas de los huesos usados para la explotación de grasas.

2025, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Personal ornaments are commonly linked to the emergence of symbolic behaviour. Although their presence in Africa dates back to the Middle Stone Age, evidence of ornament manufacturing in 2 Eurasia are sporadically observed in Middle Palaeolithic contexts, and wide diffusion have been until now well documented only since the Upper Palaeolithic. Nevertheless, little is known during the period between ca.50,000 and 40,000 years ago (kya), when modern humans colonized Eurasia replacing existing hominin populations such as the Neandertals, and a variety of so called "transitional" and/or early Upper Palaeolithic cultures emerged. Here we present shell ornaments from the Uluzzian site of Grotta del Cavallo in Italy, southern Europe. Our results show evidence of local production of shell beads for ornamental purposes as well as a trend toward tusk bead standardization over time. The temporal interval of the layers of interest (45-40 kya) makes Cavallo the earliest known shell ornament making context in Europe.

2025, PLOS ONE

Prevailing models of agricultural origins tend to envision that economic hardship drove the transition from foraging to farming economies. Growing human populations and the depletion of high-ranked animal resources forced humans into increasingly intensive and dependent relationships with plant foods. Current evidence from the Andean Altiplano (High Plateau, 3800 masl) identifies the Terminal Archaic Period represents a process of economic sustainability rather than one of food insecurity and hardship, as many prevalent agricultural origins models would suggest.

2025, La Herradura. Breve guía para recorrer su historia.

La guía patrimonial "La Herradura. Siempre Hermosa. Breve guía para recorrer su historia" (de la serie "Redescubriendo Coquimbo"), constituye un ejercicio de divulgación histórico-cultural elaborado por la Oficina de Patrimonio del Departamento de Cultura de la Municipalidad de Coquimbo. A través de crónicas documentadas, fuentes arqueológicas, testimonios gráficos y referencias bibliográficas, reconstruye el devenir de esta bahía desde sus ocupaciones prehispánicas hasta el siglo XX. Destacan episodios como el intento de desembarco de Drake en 1578, la visita de Darwin en 1835, y la permanencia del buque Herzogin-Cecilie durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. Esta publicación ofrece una narrativa territorial que articula memorias locales, procesos migratorios y patrimonio industrial en clave educativa y comunitaria.

2025, Arqueología

This paper presents the preliminary results of systematic sampling in the Molulco microregion, Melipeuco, Araucania Andina, Chile. It is an interesting area to discuss lifeways, exploitation and circulation of raw materials in a forest environment. We provide initial information at different scales by correlating the distribution and characteristics of the surface lithic record with expectations from previous works. A total of 680.000 mts2 with a total of 5.869 artefacts in 144 survey points were surveyed. Using the techno-typological and raw material registry carried out in the field, and the subsequent geostatistical analysis through GIS, we present the first tendencies on spatial patterns related to lithic technology. The predominant presence of obsidian, and the identification of supply areas of this raw material allow us to discuss, from a distributional perspective, the circulation and procurement of obsidian from Sollipulli volcano. We expect that the results obtained allow us to discuss the internodal role that this space could have had in a wider network of human interaction from different paths between both Anden slopes.

2025, Time, Energy and Stone Tools

Evolutionary ecology provides a very useful theoretical perspective for integrating a wide variety of different aspects of human behavior. Despite the tremendous potential of this approach as illustrated by the studies in this volume, there are a number of problems which merit concern. In particular. the role of raw material as a currency is poorly understood both because we have little relevant ethnographic data to guide us and also because we lack the theory to adequately handle the complexity arising from the great variety of factors which affect its use. Similarly, general theoretical principles alone are not capable of predicting specific behavioral outcomes of individual situations since several technological responses are often equally plausible solutions.furthermore, many aspects of behavior can affect a single lithic attribute. A solution to these limitations is to embed lithic studies within a wider study of culture change in which multiple lines of evidence are examined. This alternative strategy is illustrated by means of a reconstruction of organizational changes during the Mesolithic of southwestern Germany. Hypotheses put forward by Myers for Britain are upheld, although the changes in Germany proceeded in the opposite direction.

2025, Journal of Field Archaeology 22

A multiyear program of subsurface surveys and excavations in a peat bog was carried out to investigate subsistence and settlement patterns of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Central Europe. The Federsee of SW Germany is known for its rich archaeological record for the Neolithic and Bronze .Age, due largely to the exceptional preservational conditions of the peat. Although the area also contained abundant sites of the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic, these were all surface sires with only stone artifacts. Some of the results of this survey are described, focusing two sites dating to the Late Paleolithic (ca. 12, 000-10, 000 b.p.). Both sites offered good organic preservation, with fauna; remains as well as lithic artifacts represented. Comparison of these sites suggests quite different functional roles far each. Both contribute to our knowledge of a poorly understood period in Central Europe and help shed light on the nature of adaptations to the changing late glacial environments.

2025, Journal of the geological society of korea

7 small theropod trackways including a unique short trackway composed of 10 theropod footprints were discovered with a large theropod trackway from the Cretaceous lacustrine deposits at Seoyuri, Hwasun, Jeollanam-do. The unique trackway, in front of a large theropod track, consists of slipped footprints and incomplete footprints. Most of the small theropod trackways were left by dinosaurs with less than 1m in height at the hip and these dinosaurs were moving by running gait or trotting gait which are known as characteristic one commonly used when animal shows mental abstraction from carnivores. The best-preserved large theropod footprint has a maximum length of 0.63 m and calculated speed is 8.36 km/s. Ichnological and sedimentological evidences including superimposed footprints and sinuous trackways show that track-makers might be walking on the margin of lake concurrently, and appearance of a large carnivore might affect walking gaits of small theropods, although analysis of speeds and gaits suggests that a large theropod was walking such as that of Lark Quarry tracksite studied by Thulborn and Wade in 1979. On the basis of this suggestion, the unique small theropod trackway might be left by attacking of the large carnivores, and continuous studies on Seoyuri tracksite would provide useful information about the large carnivore's chasing habit for prey.

2025, ARQUEOLOGÍA DE LA PATAGONIA-MÁS ALLÁ DE LA DISTANCIA

El objetivo de este trabajo es informar sobre la existencia de estructuras de rocas conformadas por guijarros con tonalidades rojizas en espacios altos al sur de la desembocadura del río Santa Cruz. Una es un chenque fechado en ca. 1100 años AP, en el que los restos humanos presentaban evidencias de alteración térmica, la que probablemente fue la causa del color de las rocas. La misma coloración fue observada en rocas que componen una estructura subcircular localizada en la meseta próxima a la costa atlántica. Este tipo de estructuras no fue identificado hasta el momento en Patagonia meridional, es decir, al sur del río Santa Cruz.
Los resultados sugieren que el fuego podría haberse utilizado para darle una coloración rojiza a los guijarros, en lugares en que hay escasa disponibilidad de pigmento de ese color, o que el uso del fuego forme parte de costumbres funerarias específicas, que generen un paisaje cultural distinto. Ambas alternativas deberán continuar siendo exploradas.

2025, Донбасс в историческом и социокультурном контекстах

Коллективная монография посвящена комплексному изучению феномена Донбасса, с упором на ретроспективный подход. В главе освещаются вопросы землепользования и освоения земель Донбасса в период Средневековья.

2025, Plain Anthropologist

The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an archaeological site now known as the Barnes site (48HO949). Measurements of density combined with Raman spectroscopy confirm the Barnes Stone is made of calcite, possibly columnar travertine. Investigations at the Barnes site suggest prior to removal from the roadcut, the artifact was derived from a Late Archaic archaeological component buried in overbank deposits of an alluvial terrace. Radiocarbon dating suggests a discard date of ca. 2,700 and 2,400 BP for this artifact.

2025, La voz de la Montaña. 15 Bienal FEMSA

2025

Here we present the methods and findings of a systematic transect survey conducted in the Jurerru valley, Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh. Systematic protocols for locating, identifying and recording archaeological localities are detailed. The results of this transect survey are compared with those of a previous unsystematic survey to demonstrate some of the biases in the latter. The systematic data is then used to understand and compare landscape use during different periods of human occupation. The article demonstrates that systematic transect surveys can be used to rationalize landscapes of rich archaeological heritage.

2025

Background: The relations between dental arch length and teeth mesioistal size have been studied using several different methods but all of them began from the teeth mesiodistal diameters in different populations with normal occlusion. Aim: Determining mesiodistal diameter of upper and lower premolars. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in teenagers with normal occlusion, using a sample of 362 students, 174 female, and 188 males, aged 12, 13 and 14 years, chosen in the basic high schools of the city of Matanzas. Measures were taken using a caliper, directly in the mouth from the mesial contact point to the distal one at the level of its bigger diameter. The used variables were age, gender and upper and lower premolar mesiodistal diameter. Results: the measures obtained were, in upper back teeth: first right premolars: 6,9 mm; first left premolars: 7,0 mm; second right premolars: 6,8; second left premolars: 6,9. In lower back teeth: first right premolars: 7,...

2025, Pracya (ISSN:2278-4004)

The spiritual and cultural practices of indigenous communities play a significant role in shaping their personality, worldview and value systems. This study explores the spiritual practices of the Birhor tribe and their role in fostering informal value education. Data were collected from six Birhor community elders using semi-structured questionnaire. The findings highlighted that the tribe's spiritual practices sigi influence their worldview. These practices have profoundly shaped the Birhor s value system, contributing to their resilience and survival over generations. Finally, the study highlights the need to preserve these practices as valuable contribution to the Indian knowledge System (IKS) and integrate the learning's into pedagogical frameworks o enrich education and promote cultural sustainability.

2025, Entemu

En este trabajo llevamos a cabo una reflexión y análisis sobre los conjuntos líticos descontextualizados al aire libre de atribución paleolítica. Este tipo de contextos es muy habitual en la región cantábrica, especialmente en Asturias, donde el hallazgo de piezas líticas, frecuentemente de cuarcita, al aire libre y asociado a desmontes, limpiezas superficiales del terreno o remociones del mismo, es bastante habitual. Muchos de estos conjuntos son reducidos y no aportan casi nada de información desde una perspectiva tipológica o incluso tecnológica. Con este trabajo queremos poner de manifiesto esta problemática y a la vez apuntar algunas vías de interpretación y análisis desde la Arqueología del paisaje, que sí pueden ser válidas si se plantean con un enfoque espacial y territorial amplio.

2025, Archaeological Explorations of the Eastern Trans-Pecos and Big BendL Collected Papers, Vol. 1, Trans-Pecos Archaeological Program Publications

The recent discovery of an Andice type dart point within an eroded hearth in Green Valley, Brewster County, Texas, has stimulated inquiry into the poorly understood Calf Creek culturein the Big Bend. The Andice point type is recognized as one of three overlapping varieties of deep basal-notched Middle Holocene projectiles believed to be affi liated with the Calf Creek
cultural horizon in portions of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. While Andice points have a documented presence in the Big Bend, their relationship to the Calf Creek cultural phenomenon to the east and northeast of the region remains unresolved.

2025, Magallania

estudio sistemático de los motivos y se discuten las implicancias en torno a su confección desde una perspectiva espacio-temporal que contempla la integración de contextos litorales e interiores. Los resultados muestran una ampliación hacia el este de motivos presentes en las mesetas interiores del macizo del Deseado y sugieren la utilización del arte rupestre en la marcación visual del espacio asociado al curso del río Deseado, el cual podría haber funcionado como un vector de personas e ideas durante el Holoceno medio y tardío.

2025, Revista de Etologia

Comportamiento maternal de Arctocephalus australis, En los mamíferos, generalmente las hembras realizan el cuidado de la progenie repartiendo su inversión entre las crías presentes y futuras, maximizando la relación costo-beneficio. La variación en los comportamientos del cuidado maternal puede afectar en forma diferencial la supervivencia de las crías. A. australis se presenta como un interesante modelo para evaluar la incidencia de los diferentes componentes del cuidado maternal en la supervivencia del cachorro e investigar la ocurrencia de variación mensual y diaria de los comportamientos madre-cría. Diariamente se registró la presencia de hembras marcadas en la colonia mediante muestreos focales y de barrido. La frecuencia de los estados y eventos comportamentales variaron entre los meses de muestreo. Los viajes de alimentación de las madres exhibieron una duración muy variable, y el patrón de viajes-asistencia así como la permanencia de la madre con su cría incidieron en la supervivencia de los cachorros. Los resultados se discuten enmarcados en diferentes hipótesis.

2025

The standard school text of Tanzanian history, Zamani Mpaka Siku Hizi, first published in 1930, describes the earliest inhabitants of the country as ‘Bushmen’ (‘Watukoko’) and ‘Pygmies’ (‘Wabilikimo’). It suggests that the Hadza... more

2025, Пространственная структура мезолитических стоянок Малоокуловская 3 и Малое Окулово 19 в Нижнем Поочье

В статье обсуждаются особенности пространственной структуры мезолитических стоянок Малоокуловская 3 и Малое Окулово 19, расположенных в Нижнем Поочье. Стоянки были полностью исследованы раскопками в 2021 г. с использованием единой полевой методики в ходе охранно-спасательных работ. Стоянки Малоокуловская 3 и Малое Окулово 19 относятся к кругу постсвидерских памятников мезолита Восточно-Европейской равнины. Их каменный инвентарь имеет сходный типологический облик. Использование инструментов ГИС позволило провести сравнительный анализ объектов различной степени сохранности и прийти к выводу о высокой степени сходства пространственной организации стоянок Малоокуловская 3 и Малое Окулово 19.

2025

For many years archaeologists believed that the earliest human inhabitants migrated from Siberia across the Bering Straits by way of a land bridge known as Beringia about 13 B.C.E. This was based on projectile points named Clovis after... more

2025, Instituto Nacional de Antropología, Fondo de Cultura Económica

Los novedosos ensayos que conforman el volumen abordan cuestiones muy variadas como las concepciones del cuerpo y de las almas, los nexos entre cacería y agricultura, las complejas relaciones entre los hombres, los animales y los dioses o... more

2025, Latin American Antiquity

En este estudio paleodemográfico contribuimos a la discusión sobre el impacto de la incorporación de recursos vegetales domesticados en poblaciones del sitio Jaime Prats-1, el área de entierros humanos con mayor número de individuos del centro occidente argentino. La ubicación espacial y temporal del sitio arqueológico se corresponde con el registro de cultígenos prehispánicos en la región, por lo que resulta relevante para entender la dinámica poblacional en un área de interacción entre grupos cazadores-recolectores y sociedades agricultoras. Los resultados del análisis de los perfiles de edades de muerte, el Índice de Juventud y la suma de probabilidades de los fechados radiocarbónicos disponibles, indican un pulso de crecimiento demográfico entre los 2000 y los 1500 años aP, correspondiente al período de uso del sitio. Tomando como referencia un conjunto de cazadores-recolectores contemporáneos y otro de agricultores tardíos, ambos procedentes de la región, Jaime Prats-1 ocupa una posición intermedia, de confluencia entre ambos sistemas de subsistencia. Palabras clave: paleodemografía, producción de alimentos, frontera agrícola sudamericana In this paleodemographic study, we contribute to the discussion about the impact of the incorporation of domesticated plants in the life of the human population of the Jaime Prats-1 site, the burial area with the highest number of individuals in centralwestern Argentina. The chronology and spatial location of the site correspond to the presence of macroremains of prehispanic cultigens. The results of age-at-death profiles, the Juvenile Index, and the radiocarbon summed probability distributions show a demographic growth pattern of around 2000-1500 years BP, corresponding to the period of use of the site. Comparing Jaime Prats-1 with hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist reference samples, both located in the same region, Jaime Prats-1 is placed in an intermediate position, suggesting the convergence of both subsistence strategies.

2025, EDULP, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

2025

Hösten år 2021 genomförde Blekinge museum en arkeologisk undersökning
i Lösen, Karlskrona. Undersökningen genomfördes i samarbete med
Arkeologerna vid Statens historiska museer, Museiarkeologi
Sydost/Kalmar läns museum och Sydsvensk Arkeologi. Anledningen till
undersökningen var att väg E22 skulle byggas om.
Under stora delar av stenåldern låg den undersökta platsen vid stranden
på en udde i en innerskärgård. Resultaten visar att det har legat en
hydda där som var bebodd under äldre stenålder, för cirka 8000 år sedan.
Hyddan verkar ha använts vid ett par tillfällen, eftersom det fanns
många rester av eldstäder i den, och även spår av ombyggnader i form av
flyttade eller bytta stolpar. Troligen har hyddan främst använts under vintern,
eftersom den innehöll flera eldstäder och golvytan var nergrävd.
På flintredskap från hyddan fanns mikroskopiska slitspår från bland
annat kötthantering. I kombination med det strandnära läget talar det för
att man bland annat har ägnat sig åt fiske och kanske säljakt. Läget bör ha
varit utmärkt för detta, inte minst med ett mindre sund intill.

2025

The site structure of two Farly Archaic period assemblages i� defined through spatial analysis of artifact and facility distributions at the Rose Island site (40MR44) in the lower Little Tennessee River valley. These assemblages derive from well controlled excavation of deeply buried alluvial deposits attributable to Lecroy (c. 6100-6500 B.C.) and St. Albans (c. 6600-?CIX) B.C.) temporal units. Spitial JB,tterning is detected using multivariate statistical analysis of formal implement, instant tool, and debitage categories. The observed spatial patterns are interpreted through a com�ison with ex12cted spatial pitterns generated from an a priori model of hunter-gatherer residential camp activity structure. The results of the analysis allow the proposal of a general model of E9.rly Archaic residential camp site structure. The model identifies activity areas based upon densities and SJBtial relationships of artifact categories for an assemblage. The reconstructed activity structure des...

2025, Avances en …

Información del artículo Datación absoluta por termoluminiscencia de material cerámico y carbonatos procedentes del yacimiento arqueológico de la cueva de Benzú (Ceuta).

2025

Analizamos la estratigrafía del depósito y su posición geomorfológica. Aportamos un balance de la tecnología y tipología de las industrias líticas que permiten una definición en el tecnocomplejo Solutrense Superior y Solutreogravetiense. Indicamos la fauna asociada y planteamos un enmarque histórico con los asentamientos sincrónicos. Trabajamos en la definición de los modos de vida y de trabajo y en la fijación de movilidades organizadas en el territorio del suroeste peninsular de las comunidades de cazadores-recolectores especializados. Palabras clave-. Modo de producción, modo de vida, modo de trabajo, cazador-recolector, tecnología, solutrense, solutreogravetiense, materias primas, movilidad.

2025

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 © Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales | Queda hecho el depósito que establece la Ley 11723. La responsabilidad por las opiniones expresadas en los libros, artículos, estudios y otras colaboraciones incumbe exclusivamente a los autores firmantes, y su publicación no necesariamente refleja los puntos de vista de la Secretaría Ejecutiva de CLACSO.

2025, Scientific Reports

The acknowledgment of plants as signifiant components in hunter-gatherer diets has provided new
insights into past interactions between these groups and their environments, as well as between
groups with diffrent economies and social structures. The Patagonia region, South American Southern
Cone, has been traditionally perceived as dominated by game hunting. This perception has changed
by recognizing a broader spectrum of diet, where local wild and exotic domesticated plants, would
have been intertwined in these hunter-gatherer lives. However, the nature of the archaeological record
preservation obscures an accurate assessment of their role. Here, we quantifid the contribution
of plants and other resources to hunter-gatherer paleodiets through biomolecular methods and
statistical analysis (multivariate and Bayesian). We analyzed the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition (δ13Ccol, δ15N) of human remains (n = 30) and fauna/flra (n = 52) from Northern Patagonia,
and radiocarbon dated specifi individuals related to exotic domesticated plants (maize). Our results show that one-third of the overall intake was based on the systematic exploitation of local wild plants, while maize appears to have functioned as an imported edible commodity obtained from distant food
producers.

2025

The acknowledgment of plants as significant components in hunter-gatherer diets has provided new insights into past interactions between these groups and their environments, as well as between groups with different economies and social structures. The Patagonia region, South American Southern Cone, has been traditionally perceived as dominated by game hunting. This perception has changed by recognizing a broader spectrum of diet, where local wild and exotic domesticated plants, would have been intertwined in these hunter-gatherer lives. However, the nature of the archaeological record preservation obscures an accurate assessment of their role. Here, we quantified the contribution of plants and other resources to hunter-gatherer paleodiets through biomolecular methods and statistical analysis (multivariate and Bayesian). We analyzed the carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition (δ 13 C col , δ 15 N) of human remains (n = 30) and fauna/flora (n = 52) from Northern Patagonia, and radiocarbon dated specific individuals related to exotic domesticated plants (maize). Our results show that one-third of the overall intake was based on the systematic exploitation of local wild plants, while maize appears to have functioned as an imported edible commodity obtained from distant food producers.

2025, Arqueología. Revista de la Coordinación Nacional de Arqueología

Este texto fue presentado, en forma de ponencia, en agosto del 2022 como parte de un homenaje a la trayectoria de la Dra. Linda Manzanilla Naim. El artículo traata de los cambios ocurridos en el periodo colonial temprano, observados en la arquitectura, la iconografía y los materiales, en un grupo de patios que forman parte del palacio mixteco o aniñe de Yucundaa Teposcolula, los cuales se registraron mediante las excavaciones en el sitio Pueblo Viejo de Teposcolula, bajo la dirección de los doctores Nelly Robles García y Ronald Spores.

2025, Plains Anthropologist

A cache of four clay figurines from a large rockshelter in the Lower Pecos region in Val Verde County, Texas, is described. A tentative date range of 2000 to 1200 B.C., which is within the Middle Archaic period of the local chronology, is... more

2025, Plains Anthropologist

The approximate prehistoric territorial limits of an Archaic belief system in the lower Pecos area of Texas is hypothesized on the basis of the geographic distribution of a distinctive pictograph style. It is proposed that these rock art... more

2025, Hunter Gatherer Research

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2025, Latin American Antiquity

Research published in the last decade, which has provided data from both technological and morphometrical analyses of lithic points from southeastern and southern Brazil and Uruguay, suggests that there is much more cultural diversity among hunter-gatherers during the Early to Mid-Holocene than previously suggested by the Umbu Tradition model. Some of these studies have suggested new archaeological cultures and new definitions of lithic industries. In this article we present new data on another lithic assemblage that we associate with the Garivaldinense lithic industry and is found at the Pedro Fridolino Schmitz site. We also present, for the first time, the definition of two new types of lithic bifacial stemmed points. Our data suggest a lowdensity occupation of the site from the Middle to Late Holocene (8000-1000 BP) and some variability within the Garivaldinense industry throughout time and space. Resumo Pesquisas publicadas na última década, as quais forneceram dados de análises tecnológicas e morfométricas de pontas líticas do Sudeste e Sul do Brasil e do Uruguai, sugerem que a diversidade cultural entre caçadorescoletores durante o Holoceno Inicial e Médio é muito maior do que se sugeria a partir do modelo conhecido como 'Tradição Umbu'. Alguns destes estudos têm sugerido novas definições de culturas arqueológicas e indústrias líticas. Aqui nós apresentamos novos dados sobre mais uma coleção lítica que foi associada à Indústria Lítica Garivaldinense: O sítio arqueológico Pedro Fridolino Schmitz (ou sítio PFS). Também apresentamos, pela primeira vez, a definição de dois novos tipos de pontas bifaciais pedunculadas. Nossos dados sugerem uma baixa densidade de ocupação do sítio durante o Holoceno Médio e o Holoceno tardio (8000-1000 aP), assim como certa variabilidade dentro da Indústria Garivaldinense através do tempo e do espaço.

2025, Industrial Crops and Products

The plant species Plumbago zeylanica (P. zeylanica) is a multipurpose medicinal herb of family Plumbaginaceae. This plant is a natural gift to mankind credited with potential medicinal properties such as anti-cancer, anti-atherogenic, cardiotonic, hepatoprotective, anti-fungal, diabetes and neuroprotective assets to list of few. In this study, genetic diversity and relationships among various Plumbago accessions, collected from different geographical regions of India, was assessed using simple sequence repeat (SSR), sequence related amplified polymorphism (SRAP) and internal transcribed spacer (ITS) markers. SSR and SRAP markers showed highest values of Nei's genetic diversity and Shannon information index among populations. We also observed statistically significant genetic differentiations among and within populations (P < 0.01 in the AMOVA tests). Additionally, both Un-weighted paired group method with arithmetic average (UPGMA) and principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) grouped P. zeylanica populations into similar clusters which corroborate the above analysis to be useful for genetic diversity analysis of this plant. Our data signifies that SSR and SRAP are both reliable and effective tools for analyzing genetic diversity in P. zeylanica. However, based on our chosen dataset, we find ITS marker less significant for the genetic diversity analysis of this multifaceted plant. This information would be useful towards the identification, characterization and conservation of this species at the molecular level.