The Struggle for South America

Archaeology of South America

19th century South America

This basic socio-cultural framework, with all its inherent ambivalences and contradictions, emerged during the colonial era and exercised a deep and lasting impact on the political, economic and social structure of the new South American nations. Only after many decades was the impact blurred by the action of other external influences, change occurring from within, and a growing sense of nation...

The Struggle for Existence

"It is in the nature of things" is surely, today, just as good an explanation of a biological phenomenon as it ever was; and now, as always, it is singularly unilluminating. That some of the problems to which such an explanation is usually given are susceptible to analysis appears obvious; at least an approach can be made toward segregating the many factors which, acting independently ox throug...

of the Skeletal Biology of South America

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to summarize the studies carried out in the field of physical anthropology in South America. The primary aspects of the study of physical anthropology are to establish, from a morphological point of view, the similarities and/or differences between populations of a particular geographic region (Munizaga 1980:124). The principle method of accomplishment ...

The carbon balance of South America

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