Ranked habitats and the process of human colonization of South America

摘要

The papers in this volume cover issues related with the human colonization of South America. They derive from the Symposium held at the XVIIIINQUA Congress, in Bern, on 21-27 July 2011 entitled "Multidisciplinary Research on the Late Quaternary of South America: Humans, Animals, and Paleoenvironments" which aimed to integrate recently accumulated information concerning the availability of space and animals for the first human explorers of South America. It is true that the breadth of studies on multidisciplinary collaboration is great, but very few are applied to the human colonization of South America. INQUA offered the perfect framework for a Symposium on multidisciplinary studies with the capacity to cover this issue. Fifteen papers were presented and, of them, updated versions of several appear in this volume. Other papers along the same lines were also added.