Gustavo Politis
Biographic Data
| ID | 90127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gustavo Politis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gustavo |
| FAMILY NAME | Politis |
| SIGNATURE | POLITIS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pre-Hispanic fire management and anthropogenic landscape modification in the South American lowlands: New anthracological studies at Los Tres Cerros 1 archaeological site (Paraná Delta, Argentina)
Radiocarbon Chronology of Paso Otero 1 in the Pampean Region of Argentina
Paso Otero 1, in the Pampas of Argentina, is a stratified, riverine site containing alluvium with a sequence of buried A-horizons and two guanaco bone beds. The site is the first-recorded guanaco kill/butchering locale for the Pampas and represents at least two events during different times. Bulk organic sediment samples were taken from the three buried A-horizons and the humates assayed to produce a chronology for the site and date the cultural …
A setenta de años de las investigaciones de Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida en las cuevas de Tandilia
En 1950, Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida publican en la revista Runa los resultados de sus primeras investigaciones en la región pampeana, en la Gruta del Oro en el sistema serrano de Tandilia. En base a muy pocos artefactos líticos y haciendo correlaciones paleoclímaticas a larga distancia propusieron para la región la existencia hacia el 5000 a. C. de un complejo cultural epiprotolítco de cazadores inferiores al que llamaron Tandilense. Este t…
Humanized Nature: Symbolic Representation of Fauna in Pottery from the Paraná River of South America
Communities of practice in pre-Hispanic Middle and Lower Paraná (Northeastern Argentina). Ceramic petrography contributions
The use of wood during prehispanic times in the Upper Paraná Delta revealed though analysis of ancient charcoal
Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 years ago. The common ancestral population radiated rapidly from just one of the two early branches that contributed to Native Americans today. We document two previously unappreciated streams of gene flow between North and South America. One affected the Central And…
Pre-Hispanic earthwork engineering variability in the Upper Delta of the Paraná River. A comparative study between Los Tres Cerros mounds (Entre Ríos province, Argentina)
Pre-Hispanic settlements in hydrometeorologically susceptible areas during the late Holocene: The Upper Delta of the Paraná River Case
In this paper, we present the results of the geoarchaeological studies carried out in two archaeological localities of the Upper Delta of the Paraná River (Argentina). The main objective of these studies is to depict the pre-Hispanic strategies involved in the colonization and settlement of southern South America wetlands. Paraná Delta is one of the most conspicuous areas of these lowlands and comprises a large wetland macrosystem. Its current ge…
Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
This book presents an ethnoarchaeological study of the Nukak, a group of nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Politis draws on over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork to explore the relationships between Nukak material culture, settlement patterns, and social organization. He examines how their mobile lifestyle, characterized by frequent camp movements and dispersed resource exploitation, is reflected in their …
Early Asiatic Migration to the Americas: A View from South America
Into The Americas
Las implicancias arqueológicas del Diario de Pero Lopes de Sousa (1531) durante su viaje al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná
En este trabajo se estudia el diario del explorador portugués Pero Lopes de Souza en 1531 al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná desde una perspectiva histórica y arqueológica. Este relato es el único documento de la época escrito en tiempo real por un testigo directo de los acontecimientos que describe y por lo tanto es una fuente de calidad superlativa para conocer los primeros momentos de la exploración europea en el Río de la P…
Gender, Power, and Mobility Among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
The Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to affect women's social role, the traditional power relationships can still be inferred from the present conditions. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1)…
Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
Primeros resultados de las investigaciones arqueológicas en el Delta superior del Paraná y su contribución al atlas arqueológico de la Provincia de Entre Ríos
En este trabajo se dan a conocer los resultados de las prospecciones intensivas y sondeos estratigráficos llevados a cabo en el Delta Superior del río Paraná. Los sitios registrados (n=52) confirman el alto potencial arqueológico del área y se integran con la base de datos que conforman el atlas arqueológico de la provincia de Entre Ríos. Se resume la información obtenida en recolecciones superficiales y en los sondeos y se dan a conocer las prim…
Persistencia ritual entre cazadores-recolectores de la llanura pampeana
En este trabajo se discuten y resumen las evidencias obtenidas como resultado de estudios multidisciplinarios —geológicos, paleoambientales, líticos, arqueofaunísticos y tafonómicos, entre otros— del sitio Calera, ubicado en las Sierras Bayas, región pampeana, Argentina. Este sitio se presenta como un depósito excepcional de origen ritual producido probablemente como consecuencia de varias ceremonias realizadas en las inmediaciones. En este lugar…
On archaeological praxis, gender bias and indigenous peoples in South America
This article discusses several aspects of the practice of archaeology in South America, specifically in the Southern Cone. Examining two key issues: the socio-political context of knowledge production and the positioning of South American archaeology in relation to its European and North American counterparts. Three cases that bridge these issues are examined. First, Gero's argument for gender bias in the recording of field data, based in her eth…
Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
Persistencia ritual entre cazadores-recolectores de la llanura pampeana
En este trabajo se discuten y resumen las evidencias obtenidas como resultado de estudios multidisciplinarios —geológicos, paleoambientales, líticos, arqueofaunísticos y tafonómicos, entre otros— del sitio Calera, ubicado en las Sierras Bayas, región pampeana, Argentina. Este sitio se presenta como un depósito excepcional de origen ritual producido probablemente como consecuencia de varias ceremonias realizadas en las inmediaciones. En este lugar…
Primeros resultados de las investigaciones arqueológicas en el Delta superior del Paraná y su contribución al atlas arqueológico de la Provincia de Entre Ríos
En este trabajo se dan a conocer los resultados de las prospecciones intensivas y sondeos estratigráficos llevados a cabo en el Delta Superior del río Paraná. Los sitios registrados (n=52) confirman el alto potencial arqueológico del área y se integran con la base de datos que conforman el atlas arqueológico de la provincia de Entre Ríos. Se resume la información obtenida en recolecciones superficiales y en los sondeos y se dan a conocer las prim…
On archaeological praxis, gender bias and indigenous peoples in South America
This article discusses several aspects of the practice of archaeology in South America, specifically in the Southern Cone. Examining two key issues: the socio-political context of knowledge production and the positioning of South American archaeology in relation to its European and North American counterparts. Three cases that bridge these issues are examined. First, Gero's argument for gender bias in the recording of field data, based in her eth…
Gender, Power, and Mobility Among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
The Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to affect women's social role, the traditional power relationships can still be inferred from the present conditions. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1)…
Pre-Hispanic settlements in hydrometeorologically susceptible areas during the late Holocene: The Upper Delta of the Paraná River Case
In this paper, we present the results of the geoarchaeological studies carried out in two archaeological localities of the Upper Delta of the Paraná River (Argentina). The main objective of these studies is to depict the pre-Hispanic strategies involved in the colonization and settlement of southern South America wetlands. Paraná Delta is one of the most conspicuous areas of these lowlands and comprises a large wetland macrosystem. Its current ge…
The use of wood during prehispanic times in the Upper Paraná Delta revealed though analysis of ancient charcoal
Las implicancias arqueológicas del Diario de Pero Lopes de Sousa (1531) durante su viaje al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná
En este trabajo se estudia el diario del explorador portugués Pero Lopes de Souza en 1531 al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná desde una perspectiva histórica y arqueológica. Este relato es el único documento de la época escrito en tiempo real por un testigo directo de los acontecimientos que describe y por lo tanto es una fuente de calidad superlativa para conocer los primeros momentos de la exploración europea en el Río de la P…
A setenta de años de las investigaciones de Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida en las cuevas de Tandilia
En 1950, Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida publican en la revista Runa los resultados de sus primeras investigaciones en la región pampeana, en la Gruta del Oro en el sistema serrano de Tandilia. En base a muy pocos artefactos líticos y haciendo correlaciones paleoclímaticas a larga distancia propusieron para la región la existencia hacia el 5000 a. C. de un complejo cultural epiprotolítco de cazadores inferiores al que llamaron Tandilense. Este t…
Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
This book presents an ethnoarchaeological study of the Nukak, a group of nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Politis draws on over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork to explore the relationships between Nukak material culture, settlement patterns, and social organization. He examines how their mobile lifestyle, characterized by frequent camp movements and dispersed resource exploitation, is reflected in their …
On archaeological praxis, gender bias and indigenous peoples in South America
This article discusses several aspects of the practice of archaeology in South America, specifically in the Southern Cone. Examining two key issues: the socio-political context of knowledge production and the positioning of South American archaeology in relation to its European and North American counterparts. Three cases that bridge these issues are examined. First, Gero's argument for gender bias in the recording of field data, based in her eth…
Persistencia ritual entre cazadores-recolectores de la llanura pampeana
En este trabajo se discuten y resumen las evidencias obtenidas como resultado de estudios multidisciplinarios —geológicos, paleoambientales, líticos, arqueofaunísticos y tafonómicos, entre otros— del sitio Calera, ubicado en las Sierras Bayas, región pampeana, Argentina. Este sitio se presenta como un depósito excepcional de origen ritual producido probablemente como consecuencia de varias ceremonias realizadas en las inmediaciones. En este lugar…
Primeros resultados de las investigaciones arqueológicas en el Delta superior del Paraná y su contribución al atlas arqueológico de la Provincia de Entre Ríos
En este trabajo se dan a conocer los resultados de las prospecciones intensivas y sondeos estratigráficos llevados a cabo en el Delta Superior del río Paraná. Los sitios registrados (n=52) confirman el alto potencial arqueológico del área y se integran con la base de datos que conforman el atlas arqueológico de la provincia de Entre Ríos. Se resume la información obtenida en recolecciones superficiales y en los sondeos y se dan a conocer las prim…
Gender, Power, and Mobility Among the Awá-Guajá (Maranhão, Brazil)
The Awá (also known as Guajá) are hunter-gatherers whose way of life prior to their first contact with Brazilian society has been altered after relocation to a reservation. Basically, their mobility is reduced and they have been forced to start cultivation. Although these changes are beginning to affect women's social role, the traditional power relationships can still be inferred from the present conditions. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1)…
Ontology of the self and material culture: Arrow-making among the Awá hunter-gatherers (Brazil)
Into The Americas
Las implicancias arqueológicas del Diario de Pero Lopes de Sousa (1531) durante su viaje al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná
En este trabajo se estudia el diario del explorador portugués Pero Lopes de Souza en 1531 al Río de la Plata y al Delta Inferior del río Paraná desde una perspectiva histórica y arqueológica. Este relato es el único documento de la época escrito en tiempo real por un testigo directo de los acontecimientos que describe y por lo tanto es una fuente de calidad superlativa para conocer los primeros momentos de la exploración europea en el Río de la P…
Early Asiatic Migration to the Americas: A View from South America
Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People
This book presents an ethnoarchaeological study of the Nukak, a group of nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia. Politis draws on over two decades of ethnographic fieldwork to explore the relationships between Nukak material culture, settlement patterns, and social organization. He examines how their mobile lifestyle, characterized by frequent camp movements and dispersed resource exploitation, is reflected in their …
Pre-Hispanic earthwork engineering variability in the Upper Delta of the Paraná River. A comparative study between Los Tres Cerros mounds (Entre Ríos province, Argentina)
Pre-Hispanic settlements in hydrometeorologically susceptible areas during the late Holocene: The Upper Delta of the Paraná River Case
In this paper, we present the results of the geoarchaeological studies carried out in two archaeological localities of the Upper Delta of the Paraná River (Argentina). The main objective of these studies is to depict the pre-Hispanic strategies involved in the colonization and settlement of southern South America wetlands. Paraná Delta is one of the most conspicuous areas of these lowlands and comprises a large wetland macrosystem. Its current ge…
Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 years ago. The common ancestral population radiated rapidly from just one of the two early branches that contributed to Native Americans today. We document two previously unappreciated streams of gene flow between North and South America. One affected the Central And…
Communities of practice in pre-Hispanic Middle and Lower Paraná (Northeastern Argentina). Ceramic petrography contributions
The use of wood during prehispanic times in the Upper Paraná Delta revealed though analysis of ancient charcoal
Humanized Nature: Symbolic Representation of Fauna in Pottery from the Paraná River of South America
Radiocarbon Chronology of Paso Otero 1 in the Pampean Region of Argentina
Paso Otero 1, in the Pampas of Argentina, is a stratified, riverine site containing alluvium with a sequence of buried A-horizons and two guanaco bone beds. The site is the first-recorded guanaco kill/butchering locale for the Pampas and represents at least two events during different times. Bulk organic sediment samples were taken from the three buried A-horizons and the humates assayed to produce a chronology for the site and date the cultural …
A setenta de años de las investigaciones de Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida en las cuevas de Tandilia
En 1950, Oswald Menghin y Marcelo Bórmida publican en la revista Runa los resultados de sus primeras investigaciones en la región pampeana, en la Gruta del Oro en el sistema serrano de Tandilia. En base a muy pocos artefactos líticos y haciendo correlaciones paleoclímaticas a larga distancia propusieron para la región la existencia hacia el 5000 a. C. de un complejo cultural epiprotolítco de cazadores inferiores al que llamaron Tandilense. Este t…
Pre-Hispanic fire management and anthropogenic landscape modification in the South American lowlands: New anthracological studies at Los Tres Cerros 1 archaeological site (Paraná Delta, Argentina)
Geography (13 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Ethnology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Cartography (4 works) · Geology (4 works)