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The Patagonian region represents the continental southernmost tip of the world, and was the last mass land colonized by humans, at 12.000 or 13.000 years before present. Since the end of Pleistocene and during the whole Holocene live in... more
Paper presented at the 80th annual Society for American Archaeology meeting, San Francisco, California, April 16, 2015. We describe the lightning whelk (Busycon sinistrum) and show how its shells were used among coastal peoples along the... more
Cheong, Kong F. 2012 A Preliminary Analysis of the Faunal Remains from the North Group of Pacbitun, Belize. In Pacbitun Regional Archaeological Project: Report on the 2011 Field Season, edited by Terry G. Powis, pp. 87-93. Report... more
Artifact is most important record for archaeologists. In this lecture Dr Lolita Nikolova divides the archaeological artifacts into two groups: artifacts from excavations and from museums without clear origin. The artifacts from the... more
Poster. XVIII Congreso Nacional de Arqueologia Argentina, organizado por el Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Ambientales, CCT CONICET, Mendoza y la Universidad Nacional de La Rioja. Realizado en la ciudad de La Rioja, La Rioja,... more
DAIRE M.-Y., HAMON G., BARON A., CHAIGNEAU C., CHOISY-GUILLOU C., BAUDRY-DAUTRY A., DESSE-BERSET N., DESSE J.(†), DRÉANO Y., DUPONT C., GEHRES B., LARGE J.-M., LE FORESTIER S., QUERRÉ G., QUESNEL L., VISSAC C., et la collaboration de... more
While most works of southeastern archaeology focus on stone artifacts or ceramics, this volume is the first to bring together past and current trends in zooarchaeological studies. Faunal reports are often relegated to appendices and not... more
The Fernvale site (40WM51) was excavated in 1985 prior to a bridge replacement spanning the South Harpeth River in northwestern Williamson County, Tennessee. Excavations resulted in the discovery of prehistoric features including 33 human... more