Pilauco : a late Pleistocene archaeo-paleontological site : Osorno, northwestern Patagonia and Chile / Mario Pino, Giselle A. Astorga, editors.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Pino, Mario, editor.

Astorga, Giselle A., editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Conference Name:

Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.

Series:

Latin American studies book series

The Latin American studies book series, 2366-3421

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleo-Indians.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Animal remains (Archaeology).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Paleoecology.

Paleontology.

Paleolithic period.

Pilauco Site (Chile).

Osorno (Chile)--Antiquities.

Osorno (Chile).

Paleolithic period--Chile--Osorno.

Paleontology--Pleistocene.

Paleontology--Chile--Osorno.

Paleoecology--Chile--Osorno.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Chile--Osorno.

Animal remains (Archaeology)--Chile--Osorno.

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Chile--Osorno.

Paleo-Indians--Chile--Osorno.

Chile--Osorno.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 343 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

1. Pilauco and Los Notros sites research : a narration of human and scientific events / Mario Pino

2. From Gondwana to the Great American Biotic Interchange : the birth of South American fauna / Martín F. Chávez Hoffmeister

3. Geology, stratigraphy, and chronology of the Pilauco Site / Mario Pino, Alejandra Martel-Cea, Rodrigo M. Vega, Daniel Fritte and Karin Soto-Bollmann

4. The proboscidean gomphotheres (Mammalia, Gomphotheriidae) from southernmost South America / Omar P. Recabarren

5. The camelids (Artiodactyla: Camelidae) and equids (Perissodactyla: Equidae) from the Pilauco Site, northwestern Chilean Patagonia / Rafael Labarca

6. Sporormiella fungal spores as a proxy for megaherbivore abundance and decline at Pilauco / Mario Pino, Nathalie Cossio-Montecinos and Benazzir Pinto

7. Micromammals (Mammal[ia]: Rodentia) from Pilauco : identification and environmental considerations / Patricia Canales-Brellenthin

8. Taphonomy of the Pilauco Site, northwestern Chilean Patagonia / Rafael Labarca

9. Vegetation-climate-megafauna interactions during the late glacial in Pilauco Site, northwestern Patagonia / Ana M. Abarzúa, Alejandra Martel-Cea and Viviana Lobos

10. Diatoms : microalgae from Pilauco / Leonora Jarpa-Mateluna

11. Phytolith analysis from coprolites of Pilauco / Valentina Álvarez-Barra

12. Fossil Coleoptera from the Pilauco Site : an approach to late Pleistocene microenvironments / Francisco Tello and Fernanda Torres

13. Coprolites as proxies for paleoparasitology at Pilauco / Leonora Salvadores-Cerda and Felipe Ramírez-Mercado

14. The Site Los Notros : geology and first taxonomic descriptions / María Paz Lira, Rafael Labarca, Daniel Fritte, Hugo Oyarzo and Mario Pino

15. Evidence from Pilauco, Chile suggests a catastrophic cosmic impact occurred near the site ~12,800 years ago / Allen West, Ted Bunch, Malcolm A. Lecompte, Víctor Adedeji, Christopher R. Moore and Wendy S. Wolbach

16. The cultural materials from Pilauco and Los Notros sites / Ximena Navarro-Harris, Mario Pino and Pedro Guzman-Marín

17. Planning and managing a palaeontological tourism destination : the case of Pilauco-Osorno, Chile / Silvia Constabel and Katerina Veloso

18. The Pilauco and Los Notros sites : a final discussion / Mario Pino.

Notes:

CLAG's logo on title page.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783030239183

3030239187

Publisher Number:

99981979793

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Restricted for use by site license.