Rafael Suarez

This project seeks to investigate one of the topics of greatest interest in contemporary American archaeology, such as the initial settlement of America. During the late Pleistocene, climatic, faunistic, and ecological changes could produce social readjustments and technological innovations in human populations that were exploring and colonizing the low southeastern plains of South America. In this project an interdisciplinary approach with archaeological and paleoecological data are integrated to systematize and discuss different aspects of early human settlement in the Uruguay river. We seek to make an extensive excavation in open area in the Paleoamerican multicomponent Tigre site, a residential camp, where previously we have recovered evidence of human occupations dated between 14,000 to 10,000 yr cal BP. The planned geo-archeological research, will seek to generate data that help to understand the process of human adaptation to the environmental changes occurred during the last Ice Age, including the late Pleistocene, the Pleistocene Holocene transition and the early Holocene.