Susan D. deFrance

TL;DR: A study of zooarchaeological remains associated with elite Spanish colonial residents living on the outskirts of Potosi in Tarapaya indicates that wealthy inhabitants were able to procure meat sources that strongly reflect Iberian rather than Andean food habits while material culture strongly reflects local influence as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Un sumario de los trabajos arqueologicos realizados en the Quebrada Tacahuay, ubicada en el extremo sur de the costaperuana, establecido en marzo de 2015.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that ancient human presence did not always result in hutia vulnerability and that the impact to hutia populations was variable across pre-Columbian indigenous settlements.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extracted and analyzed ancient mitochondrial DNA of individual archeological guinea pigs (C. porcellus ) from three sites in the Caribbean and found that they were introduced initially to Puerto Rico from the modern-day region of Colombia.

TL;DR: Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) are endemic to The Bahamas and the skeletal remains of this species have been recovered from multiple Lucayan-associated archaeological sites in the region as mentioned in this paper.