South American Contributions to World Archaeology

Part I: Hunter and gatherer societies in South America.- Chapter 1. Landscape creation, biota and mineral resources in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense (Colombia).- Chapter 2. Peopling of Peru and Chile.- Chapter 3. Hunter-gatherers and emergent settlement hierarchy on the Andean Altiplano.- Chapter 4. Social trajectories of hunter- gatherer societies in Central Argentina: exploration and colonization of a desert landscape, La Pampa province, Argentina.- Chapter 5. The long-term relation between human beings and shellfish resources in the semiarid coast of Chile.- Chapter 6. Off site regional archaeology in Southern Patagonia (Argentina): the Coyle River Basin case study.- Chapter 7. Ultima Esperanza, Chile: Archaeological Gaps and the Supraregional Record.- Part II: Past humans as agents of landscape formation and transformation.- Chapter 8. Possible effects of niche construction processes in the historical ecology of the Orinoco river basin.- Chapter 9. Past human occupation in the Colombian Caribbean wetlands of La Mojana: modification and anthropic landscapes.- Chapter 10. A difficult environment with extraordinary advantages: strategies for survival on the floodplain of the river Cauca during the Holocene.- Chapter 11. Deploying the past to safeguard the future: hydraulic archaeology and innovation in climate change adaptation.- Chapter 12. As seen through the trees, a lens into Amazonian mobility and its lasting landscape.- Chapter 13. Zooarchaeology and sambaquis: a prolific relationship.- Chapter 14. Micromorphology of shell matrix-sites: insights from South American contexts.- Chapter 15. Subsistence Strategies of Prehistoric Ceramic Groups in the Araguaia River Valley, State of Goiás, Brazil: adaptation and management.- Chapter 16. From Mounds to Monumental Villages: Environment Transformation and Landscape Domestication in the Lowlands of Uruguay.- Part III: Multiple ways to study interaction

Editor Mariano Bonomo is currently a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Investigations (CONICET), Deputy Chief of the Archaeology Division of La Plata Museum at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of La Plata (FCNyM), and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina. His major research interests are the past human occupations of aquatic environments in the Paraná River and the Pampean Atlantic coast and the spread of agriculture and Arawak and Tupi-Guarani peoples through Lowland South America. He received both his undergraduate degree (Anthropology) and his doctorate (Natural Sciences) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.