Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas

2019/03/01 by Gustavo G. Politis, Pablo G. Messineo, Thomas W. Stafford +1 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Primate Behavior and Ecology #Sloth #Pleistocene #Archaeology #Geography #Geology #Paleontology #Zoology #Biology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546

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Abstract

(giant ground sloth) at 12,600 cal years BP and dispute previous interpretations that Pleistocene megamammals survived into the Holocene in the Pampas.

Citations

• The Paleoamerican Occupation of the Plains of Uruguay: Technology, Adaptations, and Mobility
• Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents

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