South America: long and winding roads for the first Americans at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition

Abstract

Since 1998, the idea of discussing different topics referring to the peopling of the Southern Cone at the Pleistocene/Holocene transition was occupying our interests. Finally, and with the agreement of INQUA through the Working Group “The Archaeology of the Pleistocene/Holocene transition”, a meeting was held in Argentina in December 2000 with the aims of stimulating dialogue about the existing information, and mitigating the problem of heretofore-scarce communication among those colleagues working on the archaeology of the First Americans in South America. The workshop was organized by us, with the valuable collaboration of many Argentine colleagues and friends.