Matías E. Medina

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.

TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between archaeological small-rodent burned bones and prehistoric human behavior was explored using an experimental cooking study as a modern analogue, where the entire carcasses of three guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) and two yellow-toothed cavies (Galea leucoblephara) were placed in the coals of an open fire that simulate a real campfire, rotating their positions until the meat was completely cooked.

TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomic identification of ostrich eggshells from late pre-Hispanic site Arroyo Talainin 2 (ca. 1100-300 BP, Sierras of Cordoba, Argentina) is carried out focusing mainly on its economic and political dimensions for social unit integration rather than its classical use as a seasonal indicator.

TL;DR: A short review of current data regarding the landscape use in the Sierras of Cordoba Late Prehispanic Period (ca. 1500-300 BP) is presented in this paper, where residential mobility and subsistence are analyzed in light of new evidence and interpretative framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, the restos of micromamiferos and pequenos vertebrados of Caviidae and Ctenomyidae were studied in the sitio arqueologico Quebrada del Real 1, provincia de Cordoba, Argentina.