Overview
- Describes the unique characteristics of the Pilauco site by integrating various scientific areas
- Presents Pilauco as testing ground for many global hypotheses regarding migrations of animals and humans
- Summarizes a decade of accomplished research
Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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About this book
This volume combines 10 years of accomplished research at the Pilauco site. The studies are focused on a variety of scientific areas including geological, sedimentological, geomorphological and paleobotanical topics, as well as paleontology of vertebrata and invertebrata, micropaleontology, archaeology, biochemistry, taxonomy, taphonomy, astrophysics and the development of some particular touristic aspects. In 18 chapters a variety of authors describe the excavation and investigation of this unique location.
The book presents Pilauco as an example for the natural laboratory which can be found in South America, a testing ground for many of the hypotheses regarding migrations of animals and humans. In this context the study of topics, such as the paleozoography, the role of megafauna species for the architecture of the forests, the animal extinctions or the early human settlements, is extremely important on a global scale.The Pilauco site features paleontological and archaeological evidences and is contemporaneous with the Monte Verde site (~ 15,000 cal. yr AP). It is located 100 km north from Monte Verde and lies within the Intermediate Depression in northwestern Chilean Patagonia. It was discovered by chance in 1986 and has been excavated and investigated since 2007.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Giselle Astorga is a keen palaeobotanist and scientific Chilean explorer. She did her honors thesis at Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh) working with plant macrofossils from an Eemian interglacial deposit in south-central Chile.During her Ph.D. in Tasmania-Australia, Dr. Astorga developed a deep interest on studying plant macrofossils assemblages to assist Lateglacial - Holocene vegetation reconstructions in southern latitudes. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at Instituto Ciencias de la Tierra (UACh) working with leaf-cuticles to complement pollen investigations in southern Chile. Since 2016 she has been active research collaborator at Pilauco, guest lecturer of the Master of Palaeontology program at Universidad Austral de Chile and recently appointed accredited Associated Professor of the program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pilauco: A Late Pleistocene Archaeo-paleontological Site
Book Subtitle: Osorno, Northwestern Patagonia and Chile
Editors: Mario Pino , Giselle A. Astorga
Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23918-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23917-6Published: 08 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23920-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23918-3Published: 26 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2366-3421
Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 343
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 138 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Archaeology, Sedimentology