Paso Otero 5: Plains, processing, and environments
No securely recorded ancient self-designation is established for this archaeological context.
Open-air deposits connect activity involving large animals with changing floodplain environments. Chronology and sample association matter as much as the presence of an extinct species.
Landscapes, communities, and the evidence
Landscapes and regional connections
The Quequén floodplain preserves both cultural and natural deposits; the marker provides town orientation only.
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 2005 study identifies horse remains within a broader local assemblage.
The AMS study evaluates early-occupation dates at specific sampled contexts.
The phytolith volume describes local environmental indicators and their interpretive limits.
Eine kurze, quellengestützte Zeitleiste
Diese Meilensteine dienen der Orientierung und sind keine vollständige Geschichte.
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Environmental archive continued
The microfossil account separates later deposits from the earliest occupation context.
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Horse study published
The publication reported an approximate radiocarbon age, not an interchangeable calendar date.
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 2005 study identifies horse remains within a broader local assemblage.
The AMS study evaluates early-occupation dates at specific sampled contexts.
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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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Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus Lund 1840 at Paso Otero 5: implications for extinction of the South American horse
CONICET, institutional research record · Scholarly bibliographic record and author-supplied abstract, not a new excavation · 2005
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AMS 14C dating of early human occupation of southern South America
Journal of Archaeological Science, CONICET repository · Institutional archaeological account or original study, with interpretation attributed · 2008 accepted manuscript; published version cited as 2009
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Matices Interdisciplinarios en Estudios Fitolíticos y de otros Microfósiles
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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