Luis Alberto Borrero
Biographic Data
| ID | 86040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luis Alberto Borrero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luis Alberto |
| FAMILY NAME | Borrero |
| SIGNATURE | BORRERO L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8193-1573 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 118 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 748 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 117 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
Tres Arroyos 1 Cave, Tierra del Fuego, Chile
Tierra del Fuego represents the final corner of the Americas to be settled by human groups during a period of marked climatic and landscape changes during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition. The initial human occupation of the Tres Arroyos 1 archaeological site and the subsequent formation of the Strait of Magellan represent significant milestones in this context. The archaeological materials in question date from 12,912 to 11,172 cal yr BP. The…
Hacia una ecología isotópica del norte de Tierra del Fuego
El desarrollo de una ecología isotópica regional que contemple la variabilidad espacial en la distribución natural de los valores isotópicos de las distintas especies que integran un ecosistema resulta de vital importancia para comprender las dinámicas tróficas existentes dentro del mismo, así como también para ajustar las interpretaciones paleodietarias propuestas para las poblaciones humanas. Con el fin de contribuir a este objetivo, en este tr…
Evidence of interpersonal violence through nasal fractures in Late Holocene Southern Patagonia
El cañadón Mack-Aike (cuenca media del río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina)
La información arqueológica y cronológica del cañadón Mack-Aike lo integra a la discusión sobre el uso del Campo Volcánico Pali-Aike (CVPA) por parte de las poblaciones cazadoras recolectoras. El cañadón es uno de los espacios más protegidos del sector norte del CVPA y, además, concentra agua, pasturas y fauna. A lo largo de 25 km se comprobó una distribución continua de materiales arqueológicos con sectores puntuales con alta frecuencia y divers…
De Beringia a América del Sur
Addressing the human peopling of South America requires an understanding of the case of North America, including the alternative routes suggested by different dispersal models. Accordingly, it is useful to evaluate both the assumptions and implications behind current peopling models, even when South America is rarely mentioned. One result of this discussion is that the dispersal of humans into South America should not be viewed as a linear extens…
Arqueología de paisajes emergentes
Este trabajo aborda el estudio de la localidad arqueológica Cerro de los Gatos (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina), emplazada en un sector formado luego de la transgresión marina del Holoceno medio. Se exploran las transformaciones naturales y culturales del paisaje a nivel local y regional. Los aspectos presentados y evaluados aquí incluyen (1) tafonomía y evolución geomorfológica de loci diferentes, (2) disponibilidad de recursos y ecología isotópica…
Taphonomy and Archaeofaunas
The Archaeology of the Pampas and Patagonia
In this book, Gustavo G. Politis and Luis A. Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's Pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century. Offering a history of the nomadic foragers living in the harsh habitats of the South America's Southern Cone, they provide detailed account of human adaptations to a range of environmental and social conditions. The au…
Presentación. Arqueología de las islas
Islas dentro de islas. Perspectivas biogeográficas y tafonómicas sobre la arqueología del norte de Tierra del Fuego
Luego de la transgresión del Holoceno medio, el paisaje de la bahía San Sebastián estuvo sujeto a transformaciones importantes que cambiaron sus propiedades para la ocupación humana. La formación de extensas llanuras con parches de recursos atractivos para los cazadores-recolectores promovió estrategias variables de uso del espacio. En este trabajo sintetizamos los lineamientos para el estudio arqueológico de la historia de las ocupaciones humana…
A pre-European archaeology in Malvinas/Falkland Islands? A review
The hypothesis of a prehistoric occupation of the Malvinas/Falkland Islands is reviewed. The strength of the different lines of evidence presented by different authors is discussed, and the main difficulties are pointed out. Previous analyses sustained a pre-European human presence on the basis of the recovery of macrofossil charcoal in peat bogs up to 10,500 cal BP, anecdotal evidence for the presence of canoes during the nineteenth century, the…
Nasal fracture and interpersonal violence in continental Southern Patagonia during the Late Holocene
Nasal fracture is the most common type of facial fracture in modern populations and is usually related to interpersonal violence. Nevertheless, this type of injury has been scarcely studied in bioanthropological field. In this study, it was characterized and discussed the oldest known Southern Patagonia individual presenting nasal fracture, among other lesions, most probably resulting from interpersonal violence. We reanalysed the individual 2 fr…
Pre-Columbian South America
First Steps in Addressing the Submerged Archaeological Evidence in the Patagonian Continental Shelf, Argentina
Identifying non-anthropogenic accumulation in zooarchaeological assemblages using naive Bayesian classifier
The taphonomic evaluation of zooarchaeological assemblages is paramount for compelling interpretations of past subsistence strategies, palaeoecological interactions and overall biasing of the anthropogenic bone deposition and modification by non-anthropogenic agents. A recent trend in this field, has focused on bone surface modifications (BSM) to successfully generate reference frameworks for critical evaluation of the interpretive potential of s…
La tecnología laminar en el extremo sur de Patagonia meridional
Diversas líneas de evidencia sugieren la existencia de dos rangos de acción de cazadores-recolectores en el sur de Patagonia meridional durante el Holoceno tardío: uno oriental, concentrado en el campo volcánico Pali Aike y otro occidental, localizado a lo largo de una franja relativamente longitudinal que va desde el sur de Lago Argentino hasta Última Esperanza. Mientras el uso de lascas y dacita predomina en el primero, la tecnología laminar y …
Fossil rodents in Mylodon Cave as indicators of late Pleistocene–Holocene environmental evolution in southern Chile
We conducted the first taphonomic and paleoenvironmental study based on late Pleistocene–Holocene small mammal remains recovered from the famous Mylodon Cave (Cerro Benítez area, Última Esperanza, Chile). Most of the analyzed material came from the extensive excavations made by Earl Saxon in 1976. We also studied late Holocene small mammal samples of the neighboring rock shelter Dos Herraduras 1. Analyzed remains were mostly produced by owls, pro…
La Lindosa y Leang Bulu‘ Sipong 4 y la representación del pasado
Se realizan comentarios acerca de dos recientes trabajos que presentan pictografías consideradas antiguas descubiertas en Colombia e Indonesia
Acumulaciones de restos óseos en nidos de carancho (Caracara plancus, Aves, Falconiformes) de la Patagonia Austral. Implicaciones tafonómicas y arqueológicas
Se estudiaron los restos faunísticos no ingeridos recuperados en el interior y bajo un nido de carancho (Caracara plancus) localizado en los niveles aterrazados del interfluvio Coyle-Gallegos con el objetivo general de evaluar su papel como agente tafonómico. El nido fue construido sobre una mata de calafate (Berberis sp.), ubicada en el centro de una concentración de carcasas de guanacos (Lama guanicoe) muertos por estrés invernal en el año 2020…
Examinando la especie, edad y sexo de los restos de otáridos de Punta María 2, costa atlántica de Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Punta María 2 es un sitio emplazado en la costa atlántica de Tierra del Fuego donde se recuperó el conjunto zooarqueológico de pinnípedos más abundante de dicho litoral hasta la fecha. En este trabajo presentamos la revisión de una submuestra de restos de otáridos sobre la que se desarrollan nuevos análisis osteométricos y de identificación de rasgos diagnósticos y cronograma de fusión. Así, a partir de la construcción de datos más ajustados de e…
Metapopulation Processes in the Long-Term Colonization of the Andean Highlands in South America
El rol de la espiga El Páramo en la transformación de la geografía cultural del norte de Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)
La evolución holocena de la costa atlántica es un fenómeno clave para el estudio de las ocupaciones humanas en el noreste de la estepa fueguina. Al norte del cabo Nombre ya se ha destacado su impacto en la destrucción diferencial de los contextos litorales debido al retroceso de la línea de costa. En la bahía San Sebastián, los cambios introducidos por la dinámica litoral además modificaron profundamente el paisaje y la disponibilidad de recursos…
Dónde y cómo aparecen los restos óseos humanos en Patagonia Austral
Evolución cultural divergente en la Patagonia austral
Historia reciente de la arqueología patagónica
Hunter-Gatherer Home Ranges and Marine Resources
The dietary importance of marine resources is often cited as a factor conditioning spatial organization among huntergatherers. In particular, fishing has been linked with a settled way of life and relatively small home ranges. A case study from Late Holocene southern Patagonia involving stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains and examination of the spatial distribution of marine items suggests an important role for marine foods, a low…
Early Patagonian Hunter-Gatherers
The process of the initial human exploration and colonization of Fuego-Patagonia was probably one of a slow filling in of empty spaces. The available information, coming mostly from caves and rockshelters, is sufficient to initiate a discussion on the subsistence and technology of the early Patagonian hunter-gatherers. All the evidence points toward a generalized diet. Opportunistic use of Pleistocene mammals, together with a more systematic use …
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of Fuego-Patagonia
Taphonomy at a Distance
Zhoukoudian is often cited as yielding some of the earliest evidence for the use of fire and as documenting "man the hunter" living in caves during the Middle Pleistocene. In addition, it is commonly believed that this important Chinese site documents cannibalism on the part of Middle Pleistocene hominids. We examine the data from Zhoukoudian with several questions in mind: (1) What are the agents responsible for the bone accumulations inside the…
A Puma Lair in Southern Patagonia
Taphonomy of the Tres Arroyos 1 Rockshelter, Tierra del Fuego, Chile
The Pleistocene–holocene Transition and Human Occupations in the Southern Cone of South America
Tafonomía De La Interacción Entre Pumas Y Guanacos en El Parque Nacional Torres Del Paine, Chile
Se presenta un estudio de la tafonoma de la interaccin entre guanacos
Intercambio O Movilidad
Throughout south-central Patagonia, at the southern tip of South America, artifacts of black obsidian and marine materials are found at sites far from their sources. This distribution is often attributed to the existence of exchange systems among hunter- gatherer groups occupying the region in the late Holocene. In this article, we analyze distance-decay patterns in the frequencies of both items. We explore the use of decay curves for explaining …
Moving
Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) isotopic ecology in southern South America
Events in the Archaeological Context and Archaeological Explanation [with Comments and Replies]
Many archaeologists have expressed dissatisfaction with the degree of explanatory power provided by the "new archaeology." It is the author's contention that this failure of explanation is due to a continued emphasis on the modal character of archaeological data. The variation in a cultural system's activity structure has not been perceived as influencing the archaeological context. A heuristic device is suggested to help archaeologists conceptua…
Nuevas excavaciones en Cueva del Medio
Se presentan los resultados de nuevos trabajos realizados en la cueva del Medio, Ultima Esperanza, Chile. Algunos de los principales procesos de formacin de la cueva y de acumulacin de sus sedimentos han sido identificados. Nuevas excavaciones mostraron evidencias de fauna extinta utilizando la cueva desde aproximadamente 14,000 aos radiocarbnicos AP. Las ocupaciones humanas finipleistocenas han sido confirmadas con nuevos hallazgos y fechados
Ground sloths and humans in southern Fuego-Patagonia
An evaluation of Late Pleistocene interactions between ground sloths and humans in the Fuego-Patagonia of Chile and Argentina is presented. Aspects of ground sloth taphonomy are explored, particularly the difficulties of using cut-mark and breakage evidence to recognize human exploitation. Selective transport of large animal bones is also reviewed in regards to its use as a marker of human exploitation of ground sloths. An evaluation of the relev…
The process of human colonization of Southern South America
First Guanaco-Processing Site in Southern South America
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encounte…
Human Dispersal in the Atlantic Slope of Patagonia and the Role of Lithic Availability
The purpose of this paper is to understand the role of different resources in the human ranking of habitats during the peopling of the Atlantic slope of Central-South Patagonia, as well as the technological strategies used during early human dispersal. We studied the distribution of early sites in the Deseado Massif, where there is a relatively high concentration of evidence of early human activity. We analyzed published information related to si…
Isotopes and rocks
We present an archaeological study of hunter-gatherer home ranges on the basis of two lines of evidence. Firstly, we discuss information related to the mobility of individuals, which was approached by stable isotope studies. Secondly, we present data related to the transport and discard of artefacts, since the distribution of these items may be determined by the movement of people. Our main goal is to integrate these two lines of research in the …
Ethnographical and historical accounts for understanding the exploration of new lands
Metapopulation Processes in the Long-Term Colonization of the Andean Highlands in South America
Archaeological discontinuity in Ultima Esperanza
Taphonomic and archaeological perspectives from northern Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Land of the ground sloths
Intensive Archaeological Survey in the Upper Santa Cruz Basin, Southern Patagonia
Events in the Archaeological Context and Archaeological Explanation [with Comments and Replies]
Many archaeologists have expressed dissatisfaction with the degree of explanatory power provided by the "new archaeology." It is the author's contention that this failure of explanation is due to a continued emphasis on the modal character of archaeological data. The variation in a cultural system's activity structure has not been perceived as influencing the archaeological context. A heuristic device is suggested to help archaeologists conceptua…
Bergumermeer and Modeling
Odell's use of activity areas, population parameters, seasonality, and ethnographic analogy concepts is criticized for the lack of adequate testing of his premises
On Cultural Adaptation in the Subantarctic Zone
Taphonomy at a Distance
Zhoukoudian is often cited as yielding some of the earliest evidence for the use of fire and as documenting "man the hunter" living in caves during the Middle Pleistocene. In addition, it is commonly believed that this important Chinese site documents cannibalism on the part of Middle Pleistocene hominids. We examine the data from Zhoukoudian with several questions in mind: (1) What are the agents responsible for the bone accumulations inside the…
First Guanaco-Processing Site in Southern South America
Etnoarqueología de asentamientos Aché
Ethnoarchaeology of Ache settlements. Hunting-gatherers of Eastern Paraguay.There is a growing interest in archaeology for studying human behavior in contemporary societies with the purpose of formulating theoretical models to aid in explaining certain archaeological data. The aim of this paper is to elaborate hypotheses having a degree of causality concerning the process of formation of small archaeological sites in hunting- gathering societies.…
Taphonomy of Guanaco Bones in Tierra del Fuego
Guanaco carcasses are deposited in great quantities in Cabo San Pablo, Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), as a result of winter stress. Taphonomic studies indicate that the gnawing action of foxes on guanaco ( Lama guanicoe ) carcasses produces only very tenuous marks on the bones. Lack of sustained interest in the carcasses by carnivores results in slow disarticulation. The articulated and disarticulated bones are exposed to heavy trampling by guanac…
Pristine archaeologists and the settlement of southern South America
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Intensive Archaeological Survey in the Upper Santa Cruz Basin, Southern Patagonia
Human and natural agency
In the December 1994 issue, we published a view by Meltzer, Adovasio & Dillehay of Pedra Furada, the large cave-shelter in northeast Brazil whose deposits may show a precocious human occupation of the New World. This further comment addresses natural and human agencies there, and how the research community can choose between several interpretations becoming available
The Pleistocene—Holocene Transition in Southern South America
Early Patagonian Hunter-Gatherers
The process of the initial human exploration and colonization of Fuego-Patagonia was probably one of a slow filling in of empty spaces. The available information, coming mostly from caves and rockshelters, is sufficient to initiate a discussion on the subsistence and technology of the early Patagonian hunter-gatherers. All the evidence points toward a generalized diet. Opportunistic use of Pleistocene mammals, together with a more systematic use …
A Puma Lair in Southern Patagonia
The Origins of Ethnographic Subsistence Patterns in Fuego-Patagonia
The Peopling of Patagonia The First Human Occupation
The Pleistocene–holocene Transition and Human Occupations in the Southern Cone of South America
Posiciones Teóricas en la Arqueología de Guatemala. Edgar Gutiérrez Mendoza
Human dispersal and climatic conditions during Late Pleistocene times in Fuego-Patagonia
The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of Fuego-Patagonia
The Archaeology of Patagonia
Stable isotope analysis of human bone and ethnohistoric subsistence patterns in Tierra del Fuego
Departamento de Investigaciones Prehistóricas y Arqueológicas (Dipa)
Taphonomy of the Tres Arroyos 1 Rockshelter, Tierra del Fuego, Chile
Environmental changes and hunter-gatherers in southern Patagonia
The aim of this work is to integrate archaeological and palaeoenvironmental information obtained for the last 5000 years in the areas of Lago Argentino and Cabo Vírgenes, southern Patagonia
The Settlement of the Americas
The Settlement of the Americas:. New Prehistory. Tom D. Dillehay. New York: Basic Books, 2000. 371 pp
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