Pleistocene Settlement: First Settlers in South America

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract The technological, stylistic, and ecological diversity evident among the earliest archaeological sites with evidence of humans in South America suggests this process likely began much earlier than assumed by most scholars and questions theories and models about the human colonization of the entire New World. Relying on examples from some of South America’s earliest archaeological sites, we review the state of the art of what we know about this process and about how this knowledge is produced. As a result, we argue not only that somewhat arbitrary biases have favored certain kinds of evidence and later cultural developments over others but also that epistemological and even ontological misunderstandings have shrouded our discussions regarding the complexity and variability featured in the formation of the archaeological record of the earliest human occupations of the continent. Nevertheless, understanding how the late Pleistocene peopling of South America unfolded is still a largely unresolved but immensely provocative question fueling creative and provocative research.
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Authors Astolfo G.M. Araújo, José M. Capriles
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.19
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.19
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