Mario Pino

Biographic Data

ID	3641971
NAME	Mario Pino
GIVEN NAMES	Mario
FAMILY NAME	Pino
SIGNATURE	PINO M
AFFILIATIONS	Austral University of Chile
ORCID	0000-0001-6181-353X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	29
TOTAL CITATIONS	126
AUTHOR COUNT	28
EDITOR COUNT	1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2004
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	6

Archaeological and Geological Evidence at Monte Verde II, Chile, Supports a Human Occupation at ∼14,500 Years Ago
Open AccessTom D Dillehay, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2026
In recent articles, Surovell et al. (Citation2026a. “A Mid-Holocene Age for Monte Verde Challenges the Timeline of Human Colonization of South America.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288; Surovell, Todd A., César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M. Thompson, and Claudio Latorre. 2026b. “Reply to Waters et al.: Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Redeposition at Monte Verde.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288) and Méndez et al. (Citation2026.…
Revised pre-Younger Dryas chronocultural sequence at the Pilauco site, north-western Patagonia (40°-44°S)
Open AccessAntonio Pérez Balarezo, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2024References: 8
This project in southern Chile's Lake Region analysed late Pleistocene human-environment interactions. Two field seasons in 2020 and 2022 provided a new lithic collection dating to around 17 300-12 800 cal BP, which indicates human presence in north-western Patagonia prior to the Younger Dryas period
Monte Verde II: An Assessment of New Radiocarbon Dates and Their Sedimentological Context
Open AccessMario Pino, T D DillehayARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 1References: 39
Monte Verde II in southern Chile is one of the most important, and debated, sites for understanding of the early peopling of the Americas. The authors present 43 radiocarbon measurements based on cores of sediments that overlie the archaeological deposits adjacent to the site. Statistical analysis of these dates narrows the deposition of the earliest sediments sealing the occupational layer to c. 14 550 cal BP. The consistency between the dates o…
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile
Open AccessErwin González-Guarda, Carlos Tornero et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022
Stable isotopes are a powerful tool for reconstructing the past. However, environmental factors not previously considered can lead to misinterpretations. Our study presents a novel analysis of the feeding behavior of the megafauna that inhabited the Pilauco ecosystem in south-central Chile during the last glacial termination. We analyzed a suite of modern plant and animal samples from closed-canopy forests to establish an isotopic baseline with w…
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2022Cited by: 1References: 16
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Brief Rebuttal to Politis and Prates
T D Dillehay, Carlos Ocampo et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2021
This comment is a brief response to the opinion statement made by Politis and Prates in this issue of PaleoAmerica. Some of their errors and misunderstandings are corrected. We maintain that the psephites from Monte Verde-I and Chinchihuapi-I are allochthonous and cultural in origin
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia
Antonio Pérez Balarezo, Ximena Navarro-Harris et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2021Cited by: 6References: 27
The Pilauco site, in northwestern Chilean Patagonia, presents evidence of human occupation in South America ca. 16,500 cal yr BP. This article presents the techno-functional analysis of a unifacial artifact belonging to a 17,300 cal yr BP level, found in association with five other lithic pieces. Artifacts of this type have long been considered expedient rather than formal or curated pieces. These artifacts remain in the shadow of bifacial pieces…
Pilauco and Los Notros Sites Research: A Narration of Human and Scientific Events
Open AccessMario PinoCHAPTERPilauco2020
The Pilauco and Los Notros Sites: A Final Discussion
Open AccessMario PinoCHAPTERPilauco2020
The Cultural Materials from Pilauco and Los Notros Sites
Open AccessXimena Navarro-Harris, Mario Pino et al.CHAPTERPilauco2020
The Site Los Notros: Geology and First Taxonomic Descriptions
Open AccessMaría Paz Lira, Rafael Labarca et al.CHAPTERPilauco2020
The Chiquihuite Cave, a Real Novelty? Observations about the Still-ignored South American Prehistory
Eric Boëda, Ruth Gruhn et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2020Cited by: 5References: 10
The recently reported discovery of cultural evidence at Chiquihuite Cave (Zacatecas, Mexico), produced by humans of at least 26,500 calendar years ago, is a major advance in research into early human occupations in the Americas. Thirteen of the 239 lithic artifacts recovered from the SC-C stratigraphic component, dated during and before the Last Glacial Maximum, are illustrated in Ardelean et al. (2020. “Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico aro…
New excavations at the late Pleistocene site of Chinchihuapi I, Chile
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Carlos Ocampo et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019
This paper presents new excavation data on the Chinchihuapi I (CH-I) locality within the Monte Verde site complex, located along Chinchihuapi Creek in the cool, temperate Valdivian rain forest of south-central Chile. The 2017 and 2018 archaeological excavations carried out in this open-air locality reveal further that CH-I is an intermittently occupied site dating from the Early Holocene (~10,000 cal yr BP) to the late Pleistocene (at least ~14,5…
Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site
Open AccessGiselle Astorga, Francisco Javier Medianero Soto et al.BOOKPilauco2019Cited by: 5
The procurement and use of knappable glassy volcanic raw material from the late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Chilean Northwestern Patagonia
Open AccessXimena Navarro-Harris, Ximena Navarro‐Harris et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2019Cited by: 7References: 24
In this study we used a multidisciplinary approach, coupling morphological, geological, geochemical, and statistical analyses to investigate the provenance of rhyodacitic and dacitic glass knapped at the Pilauco site (40°34′11” S, 73°06′17” W; 13,570 ± 70–12,540 ± 90 14 C year BP) in northwestern Chilean Patagonia. A morphotechnological analysis was performed on the entire lithic assemblage, which is composed of cores, retouched and unretouched u…
Fossil beetles from Pilauco, south-central Chile: An Upper Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Open AccessFrancisco Tello, Mario Elgueta et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017
New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil
Eric Boëda, Roxane Rocca et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2016
Sítio do Meio, discovered in the 1990s, showed a sedimentary sequence clearly composed of two sets of deposits separated by a zone of large rockfall from the massive collapse of the shelter's overhang. The bottom set, slightly more than 60 cm thick, was trapped between the bedrock (upon which it rested) and the lower part of the roof fall (reaching more than 1 m in the excavation area), and yielded some charcoal without other archaeological mater…
Environmental Responses to Climatic and Cultural Changes
Open AccessAna M Abarzúa, Alia G Pinchicura et al.CHAPTERTeleoscopic Polity2014
The gomphotheres (proboscidea: (Gomphotheriidae) from Pilauco site: Scavenging evidence in the Late Pleistocene of the Chilean Patagonia
Open AccessRafael Labarca, Omar Patricio Recabarren et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2014
The peopling of South America: Expanding the Evidence
Open AccessEric Boëda, Christelle Lahaye et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 1
International audience
A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America: The Vale da Pedra Furada (Piauí, Brazil)
Open AccessEric Boëda, Ignacio Clemente-Conte et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 59References: 24
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
A late pleistocene human presence at Huaca Prieta, Peru, and early Pacific Coastal adaptations
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2012
Archaeological excavations in deep pre-mound levels at Huaca Prieta in northern Peru have yielded new evidence of late Pleistocene cultural deposits that shed insights into the early human occupation of the Pacific coast of South America. Radiocarbon dates place this occupation between ~ 14,200 and 13,300 cal yr BP. The cultural evidence shares certain basic technological and subsistence traits, including maritime resources and simple flake tools…
The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile
Mario Pino, M Hoffmeister et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 18References: 13
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2012Cited by: 7References: 15
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
Primer Registro De Mephitidae (Carnivora: (Mammalia) Para El Pleistoceno De Chile
Open AccessERWIN GONZÁLEZ G, Francisco Juan Prevosti et al.ARTICLEMagallania2010
Damos a conocer el primer registro fsil de la familia Mephitidae para el Pleistoceno de Chile, el cual corresponde a gran parte de la caja craneana. El material fue descubierto en el sitio paleontolgico Pilauco

A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America: The Vale da Pedra Furada (Piauí, Brazil)
Open AccessEric Boëda, Ignacio Clemente-Conte et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 59References: 24
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile
Mario Pino, M Hoffmeister et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 18References: 13
Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Tom Dillehay et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 13References: 17
The result of long-term environmental and human interaction is a variety of potential human responses to major natural crises: population aggregation or dispersal, changes in economic strategies and land-use patterns, restructuring of social organization, increase in the incidence of conflict and warfare, and, in some instances, urban abandonment and cultural collapse. In the context of pre-industrial societies, two social processes with the grea…
The procurement and use of knappable glassy volcanic raw material from the late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Chilean Northwestern Patagonia
Open AccessXimena Navarro-Harris, Ximena Navarro‐Harris et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2019Cited by: 7References: 24
In this study we used a multidisciplinary approach, coupling morphological, geological, geochemical, and statistical analyses to investigate the provenance of rhyodacitic and dacitic glass knapped at the Pilauco site (40°34′11” S, 73°06′17” W; 13,570 ± 70–12,540 ± 90 14 C year BP) in northwestern Chilean Patagonia. A morphotechnological analysis was performed on the entire lithic assemblage, which is composed of cores, retouched and unretouched u…
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2012Cited by: 7References: 15
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia
Antonio Pérez Balarezo, Ximena Navarro-Harris et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2021Cited by: 6References: 27
The Pilauco site, in northwestern Chilean Patagonia, presents evidence of human occupation in South America ca. 16,500 cal yr BP. This article presents the techno-functional analysis of a unifacial artifact belonging to a 17,300 cal yr BP level, found in association with five other lithic pieces. Artifacts of this type have long been considered expedient rather than formal or curated pieces. These artifacts remain in the shadow of bifacial pieces…
The Chiquihuite Cave, a Real Novelty? Observations about the Still-ignored South American Prehistory
Eric Boëda, Ruth Gruhn et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2020Cited by: 5References: 10
The recently reported discovery of cultural evidence at Chiquihuite Cave (Zacatecas, Mexico), produced by humans of at least 26,500 calendar years ago, is a major advance in research into early human occupations in the Americas. Thirteen of the 239 lithic artifacts recovered from the SC-C stratigraphic component, dated during and before the Last Glacial Maximum, are illustrated in Ardelean et al. (2020. “Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico aro…
Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site
Open AccessGiselle Astorga, Francisco Javier Medianero Soto et al.BOOKPilauco2019Cited by: 5
Morphological and geochemical analysis of the Laguna Blanca/Zapaleri obsidian source in the Atacama Puna
Open AccessAndrea Seelenfreund, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2010Cited by: 3References: 3
This paper describes a large obsidian deposit located along the southern banks of Laguna Blanca, on the eastern slope of the Jarellón volcanic caldera near the Chilean–Bolivian border. The obsidian at this site occurs in flows or sheets of deflated black or reddish to brown pebbles, redeposited on the shores of a lake. Blocks of obsidian are only found around the caldera rim. Here we analyze the shape of the obsidian pebbles and their geochemistr…
Monte Verde II: An Assessment of New Radiocarbon Dates and Their Sedimentological Context
Open AccessMario Pino, T D DillehayARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 1References: 39
Monte Verde II in southern Chile is one of the most important, and debated, sites for understanding of the early peopling of the Americas. The authors present 43 radiocarbon measurements based on cores of sediments that overlie the archaeological deposits adjacent to the site. Statistical analysis of these dates narrows the deposition of the earliest sediments sealing the occupational layer to c. 14 550 cal BP. The consistency between the dates o…
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLERadiocarbon2022Cited by: 1References: 16
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
The peopling of South America: Expanding the Evidence
Open AccessEric Boëda, Christelle Lahaye et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 1
International audience

Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Tom Dillehay et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 13References: 17
The result of long-term environmental and human interaction is a variety of potential human responses to major natural crises: population aggregation or dispersal, changes in economic strategies and land-use patterns, restructuring of social organization, increase in the incidence of conflict and warfare, and, in some instances, urban abandonment and cultural collapse. In the context of pre-industrial societies, two social processes with the grea…
Impact of the 1960 major subduction earthquake in Northern Patagonia (Chile, Argentina)
Open AccessEmmanuel Chapron, Daniel Ariztegui et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2006
Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Carlos Ramirez et al.ARTICLEScience2008
The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the pres…
Primer Registro De Mephitidae (Carnivora: (Mammalia) Para El Pleistoceno De Chile
Open AccessERWIN GONZÁLEZ G, Francisco Juan Prevosti et al.ARTICLEMagallania2010
Damos a conocer el primer registro fsil de la familia Mephitidae para el Pleistoceno de Chile, el cual corresponde a gran parte de la caja craneana. El material fue descubierto en el sitio paleontolgico Pilauco
Morphological and geochemical analysis of the Laguna Blanca/Zapaleri obsidian source in the Atacama Puna
Open AccessAndrea Seelenfreund, Mario Pino et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2010Cited by: 3References: 3
This paper describes a large obsidian deposit located along the southern banks of Laguna Blanca, on the eastern slope of the Jarellón volcanic caldera near the Chilean–Bolivian border. The obsidian at this site occurs in flows or sheets of deflated black or reddish to brown pebbles, redeposited on the shores of a lake. Blocks of obsidian are only found around the caldera rim. Here we analyze the shape of the obsidian pebbles and their geochemistr…
A late pleistocene human presence at Huaca Prieta, Peru, and early Pacific Coastal adaptations
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2012
Archaeological excavations in deep pre-mound levels at Huaca Prieta in northern Peru have yielded new evidence of late Pleistocene cultural deposits that shed insights into the early human occupation of the Pacific coast of South America. Radiocarbon dates place this occupation between ~ 14,200 and 13,300 cal yr BP. The cultural evidence shares certain basic technological and subsistence traits, including maritime resources and simple flake tools…
The late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Osorno, south-central Chile
Mario Pino, M Hoffmeister et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 18References: 13
Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Duccio Bonavia et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2012Cited by: 7References: 15
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative…
Environmental Responses to Climatic and Cultural Changes
Open AccessAna M Abarzúa, Alia G Pinchicura et al.CHAPTERTeleoscopic Polity2014
The gomphotheres (proboscidea: (Gomphotheriidae) from Pilauco site: Scavenging evidence in the Late Pleistocene of the Chilean Patagonia
Open AccessRafael Labarca, Omar Patricio Recabarren et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2014
The peopling of South America: Expanding the Evidence
Open AccessEric Boëda, Christelle Lahaye et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 1
International audience
A new late Pleistocene archaeological sequence in South America: The Vale da Pedra Furada (Piauí, Brazil)
Open AccessEric Boëda, Ignacio Clemente-Conte et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2014Cited by: 59References: 24
The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted (see Meltzeret al.1994). New work at the rockshelter of Boqueirão da Pedra Furada and at the nearby open-air site of Vale da Pedra Furada have however produced new evidence for human occupation extending back more than 20 000 years. The argument is supported by a series o…
New Data on a Pleistocene Archaeological Sequence in South America: Toca do Sítio do Meio, Piauí, Brazil
Eric Boëda, Roxane Rocca et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2016
Sítio do Meio, discovered in the 1990s, showed a sedimentary sequence clearly composed of two sets of deposits separated by a zone of large rockfall from the massive collapse of the shelter's overhang. The bottom set, slightly more than 60 cm thick, was trapped between the bedrock (upon which it rested) and the lower part of the roof fall (reaching more than 1 m in the excavation area), and yielded some charcoal without other archaeological mater…
Fossil beetles from Pilauco, south-central Chile: An Upper Pleistocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Open AccessFrancisco Tello, Mario Elgueta et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017
New excavations at the late Pleistocene site of Chinchihuapi I, Chile
Open AccessT D Dillehay, Carlos Ocampo et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2019
This paper presents new excavation data on the Chinchihuapi I (CH-I) locality within the Monte Verde site complex, located along Chinchihuapi Creek in the cool, temperate Valdivian rain forest of south-central Chile. The 2017 and 2018 archaeological excavations carried out in this open-air locality reveal further that CH-I is an intermittently occupied site dating from the Early Holocene (~10,000 cal yr BP) to the late Pleistocene (at least ~14,5…
Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site
Open AccessGiselle Astorga, Francisco Javier Medianero Soto et al.BOOKPilauco2019Cited by: 5
The procurement and use of knappable glassy volcanic raw material from the late Pleistocene Pilauco site, Chilean Northwestern Patagonia
Open AccessXimena Navarro-Harris, Ximena Navarro‐Harris et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2019Cited by: 7References: 24
In this study we used a multidisciplinary approach, coupling morphological, geological, geochemical, and statistical analyses to investigate the provenance of rhyodacitic and dacitic glass knapped at the Pilauco site (40°34′11” S, 73°06′17” W; 13,570 ± 70–12,540 ± 90 14 C year BP) in northwestern Chilean Patagonia. A morphotechnological analysis was performed on the entire lithic assemblage, which is composed of cores, retouched and unretouched u…
Pilauco and Los Notros Sites Research: A Narration of Human and Scientific Events
Open AccessMario PinoCHAPTERPilauco2020
The Pilauco and Los Notros Sites: A Final Discussion
Open AccessMario PinoCHAPTERPilauco2020
The Cultural Materials from Pilauco and Los Notros Sites
Open AccessXimena Navarro-Harris, Mario Pino et al.CHAPTERPilauco2020
The Site Los Notros: Geology and First Taxonomic Descriptions
Open AccessMaría Paz Lira, Rafael Labarca et al.CHAPTERPilauco2020
The Chiquihuite Cave, a Real Novelty? Observations about the Still-ignored South American Prehistory
Eric Boëda, Ruth Gruhn et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2020Cited by: 5References: 10
The recently reported discovery of cultural evidence at Chiquihuite Cave (Zacatecas, Mexico), produced by humans of at least 26,500 calendar years ago, is a major advance in research into early human occupations in the Americas. Thirteen of the 239 lithic artifacts recovered from the SC-C stratigraphic component, dated during and before the Last Glacial Maximum, are illustrated in Ardelean et al. (2020. “Evidence of Human Occupation in Mexico aro…
Brief Rebuttal to Politis and Prates
T D Dillehay, Carlos Ocampo et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2021
This comment is a brief response to the opinion statement made by Politis and Prates in this issue of PaleoAmerica. Some of their errors and misunderstandings are corrected. We maintain that the psephites from Monte Verde-I and Chinchihuapi-I are allochthonous and cultural in origin
Beyond the Mighty Projectile Point: Techno-functional Study in a Late Pleistocene Artifact, Pilauco Site, Osorno, Northwestern Chilean Patagonia
Antonio Pérez Balarezo, Ximena Navarro-Harris et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2021Cited by: 6References: 27
The Pilauco site, in northwestern Chilean Patagonia, presents evidence of human occupation in South America ca. 16,500 cal yr BP. This article presents the techno-functional analysis of a unifacial artifact belonging to a 17,300 cal yr BP level, found in association with five other lithic pieces. Artifacts of this type have long been considered expedient rather than formal or curated pieces. These artifacts remain in the shadow of bifacial pieces…
Dietary ecological traits of extinct mammalian herbivores from the last glacial termination at the Pilauco Site, Chile
Open AccessErwin González-Guarda, Carlos Tornero et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2022
Stable isotopes are a powerful tool for reconstructing the past. However, environmental factors not previously considered can lead to misinterpretations. Our study presents a novel analysis of the feeding behavior of the megafauna that inhabited the Pilauco ecosystem in south-central Chile during the last glacial termination. We analyzed a suite of modern plant and animal samples from closed-canopy forests to establish an isotopic baseline with w…