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Clara Otaola
Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Publications - 26
Citations - 417
Clara Otaola is an academic researcher from National Scientific and Technical Research Council. The author has contributed to research in topics: Zooarchaeology & Taphonomy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 22 publications receiving 337 citations. Previous affiliations of Clara Otaola include American Museum of Natural History & Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.
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Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation
Jessica L. Metcalf,Jessica L. Metcalf,Chris S. M. Turney,Ross Barnett,Ross Barnett,Fabiana María Martin,Sarah C Bray,Sarah C Bray,Julia T. Vilstrup,Ludovic Orlando,Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi,Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi,Daniel Loponte,Matías E. Medina,Mariana E. De Nigris,Teresa Civalero,Pablo Fernandez,Alejandra Gasco,Víctor Durán,Kevin L. Seymour,Clara Otaola,Adolfo Gil,Rafael Sebastián Paunero,Francisco Juan Prevosti,Corey J. A. Bradshaw,Jane V. Wheeler,Luis Alberto Borrero,Jeremy J. Austin,Alan Cooper,Alan Cooper +29 more
TL;DR: Increased resolution provided by the Patagonian material reveals that the sequence of climate and extinction events in North and South America were temporally inverted, but in both cases, megafaunal extinctions did not occur until human presence and climate warming coincided.
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Geographic scale and zooarchaeological analysis of Late Holocene foraging adaptations in western Argentina
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze different faunal abundance indices considering different spatial scales and the representativeness of the zooarchaeological samples and show distinctive patterns of resource use over time at the macro and subregional scales.
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Variation in camelid δ13C and δ15N values in relation to geography and climate: Holocene patterns and archaeological implications in central western Argentina
Adolfo Gil,Andrew Ugan,Andrew Ugan,Clara Otaola,Gustavo Neme,Miguel Angel Giardina,Lumila Paula Menéndez +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of isotope analysis of 91 camelid specimens distributed across western Argentina between 30° and 37° S. The results highlight the need to consider the geographic origin of camelid isotope values when using them to reconstruct human diet.
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Resource Exploitation and Human Mobility: Trends in the Archaeofaunal and Isotopic Record from Central Western Argentina
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the zooarchaeological record to understand changes in human diet in central western Argentina through time, and they found that faunal diversity in ZooArchaeological assemblages has a stronger correlation with the natural distribution of resources than with chronology, as was proposed previously.
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Patch Choice, Landscape Ecology, and Foraging Efficiency: the Zooarchaeology of Late Holocene Foragers in Western Argentina
TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ an evolutionary ecological perspective to study the zooarchaeology of foraging adaptations after 4000 BP in the Payunia volcanic and the Andean highland subregions of southern Mendoza, Argentina during the late Holocene.