Arroyo del Vizcaíno, Uruguay: a fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones.

Arroyo del Vizcaı́no, Uruguay: a fossil-rich 30-ka-old megafaunal locality with cut-marked bones

Sección Paleontologı́a, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, 11400 Montevideo, Uruguay Sección Geotécnica, Facultad de Ingenierı́a, Universidad de la República, Julio Herrera y Reissig 565, 11300 Montevideo, Uruguay Laboratorio C, Comisión Nacional de Arqueologı́a, Cátedra de Radioquı́mica, Facultad de Quı́mica, Universidad de la República, Gral. Flores 2124, 11200 Montevide...

Vizcaı́no site, Uruguay

Archaeological evidences are still missing: a comment on Fariña et al. Arroyo del Vizcaíno site, Uruguay. Fariñ a et al. [1] suggest the possibility of human presence ca 30 ka in the Arroyo del Vizcaíno site (AVS) (southern Uruguay). This is based mainly on the record of cutmarks made by human artefacts on Pleistocene animal bones. They also inform of the finding of a single tiny stone tool and...

Archaeological evidences are still missing: a comment on Fariña et al. Arroyo del Vizcaíno site, Uruguay.

Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene megafaunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecuador

Fossil deposits in the petroleum-rich sediments of the Santa Elena Peninsula in southwestern Ecuador contain some of the largest and best-preserved assemblages of Pleistocene megafaunal remains known from the neotropics, and thus represent an opportunity to greatly expand our knowledge of Pleistocene paleoecology and the extinction of Quaternary megafauna in this region. This paper reports data...

Unraveling hominin behavior at another anthropogenic site from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): new archaeological and taphonomic research at BK, Upper Bed II.

New archaeological excavations and research at BK, Upper Bed II (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) have yielded a rich and unbiased collection of fossil bones. These new excavations show that BK is a stratified deposit formed in a riverine setting close to an alluvial plain. The present taphonomic study reveals the second-largest collection of hominin-modified bones from Olduvai, with abundant cut marks...