Campo Laborde: Megafauna, tools, and dating
No securely recorded ancient self-designation is established for this archaeological context.
A giant-sloth processing context links skilled tool use with an important chronological revision. The site's history shows why old dates cannot be repeated without checking later analyses.
Landscapes, communities, and the evidence
Landscapes and regional connections
The Tapalqué stream landscape linked water, animals and work; a public-town marker does not locate the private archaeological deposit.
Political organization and community scale
The evidence concerns selected activities, deposits and local community scale, not one centralized government, capital, bounded people or complete account of authority. Tools, mounds, paintings and preservation alone cannot establish political organization.
Colonial encounters, living heritage, and modern reception
Modern research and heritage care differ from ancient occupation. Living Indigenous communities and custodians are not vanished archaeological classifications; this profile neither establishes nor denies automatic continuity, recognition or descent. Cited institutions have not endorsed this atlas.
The 2019 study places the event around 12,600 calibrated years BP, revising earlier estimates.
The 2015 comparative study evaluates acquisition, use and disposal, not the complete economy of a people.
The institutional account presents evidence for a processing event without resolving every regional extinction.
Eine kurze, quellengestützte Zeitleiste
Diese Meilensteine dienen der Orientierung und sind keine vollständige Geschichte.
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Sloth processing
Modified remains and lithics support the study's kill-and-butchery interpretation.
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Younger ages proposed
The later study explains why earlier chronological estimates require revision.
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Technological comparison
The comparative publication studied the lithic assemblage before the redating.
Food, skilled work, households, and language limits
In diesem Profil genannte Sprachen
- No secure spoken-language assignment from these archaeological materials alone; later ethnonyms and ethnography cannot identify every earlier resident.
Sprachfamilie: Material styles and site names do not establish language families or a single community identity.
The 2019 study places the event around 12,600 calibrated years BP, revising earlier estimates.
The 2015 comparative study evaluates acquisition, use and disposal, not the complete economy of a people.
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Prefer living community institutions, heritage authorities, accountable archaeological projects, original studies and institutional repositories. Repository abstracts and research notices are identified as such, not substituted for complete excavation records. Attribute sample types, dates, units and changing interpretations. Distinguish tentative heritage proposals from inscriptions and modern restitution work from ancient occupation.
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C1
Cronología radiocarbónica
CONICET, institutional research record · Scholarly bibliographic record and author-supplied abstract, not a new excavation · 2014
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C2
Broken stone tools from Cerro El Sombrero Cima (Tandilia Range, Argentina)
CONICET Digital, scholarly repository · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2012-11
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C3
Nuevas evidencias sobre las ocupaciones tempranas en Cerro Casa de Piedra 7
CONICET, institutional research record · Scholarly bibliographic record and author-supplied abstract, not a new excavation · Undated resource; accessed 2026-10-20
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C4
Micromamíferos, tafonomía y paleoambientes del cuaternario tardío en Tierra del Fuego: Los roedores de Tres Arroyos 1
Institutional journal via SciELO Chile · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2020
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C5
Cultura material y procesos interculturales en Sancti Spiritus (1527–1529). Un abordaje arqueológico contextual
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, archaeological research repository · Fabián C. Letieri and Gabriel Cocco, contextual archaeological study · 2015, Revista del Centro de Estudios de Arqueología Histórica, Año IV, Vol. 4
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C6
Lengua yagán
Subdirección Nacional de Pueblos Originarios y Tribal Afrodescendiente chileno · Living-language institutional context, not ancient population evidence · Undated resource; accessed 2026-10-20
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C7
Restitución Colección Gusinde
Museo Territorial Yagan Usi · Institutional restitution and living community stewardship account · Undated resource; accessed 2026-10-20
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C8
Fuentes y distribución de diferentes tipos de obsidianas en sitios arqueológicos del centro-sur de Chile (38–44°S)
Institutional journal via SciELO Chile · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2009
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S1
Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas
CONICET Digital, scholarly repository · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2019-03-06
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S2
Nuevas evidencias sobre la extinción de los mamíferos gigantes en América
CONICET · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2019-03-14
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S3
Technological Organization in Hunting/Scavenging and Butchering Sites of Megamammals in the Pampa Grasslands (Argentina)
CONICET Digital, scholarly repository · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2015-10
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