Lithic resources exploitation territory in the Argentinean Central Andes during the late Pleistocene - early Holocene.

Abstract

Data on lithic artifacts from Agua de la Cueva - Sector Sur shelter, along with faunal archaeological records, potentially available vegetable resources and current structure of resources of the area, allow for the study of some aspects related to the site exploitation territory during the early peopling (ca. 11,000 - 7,500 C 14 years BP) of the Andes Centrales Argentinos. A marked tendency to the catchment of local resources and indications of a transregional extension of the settlement/subsistence systems that included the site during the late Pleistocene - early Holocene are observed.