El Fin Del Mundo
In a remote desert corner of Sonora, Mexico, the site of El Fin del Mundo offers the first recorded evidence of Palaeoindian interactions with gomphotheres, an extinct species related to elephants. The Clovis occupation of North America is the oldest generally accepted and well-documented archaeological assemblage on the continent. This site in Sonora, Mexico, is the northernmost dated late Pleistocene gomphothere and the youngest in North America. It is the first documented intact buried Clovis site outside of the United States, the first in situ Palaeoindian site in northwestern Mexico, and the first documented evidence of Clovis gomphothere hunting in North America. The site also includes an associated upland Clovis campsite. This volume also describes a palaeontological bone bed below the Clovis level, which includes a rare association of mastodon, mammoth, and gomphothere.
El Fin del Mundo presents and synthesises the archaeological, geological, palaeontological, and palaeoenvironmental records of an important Clovis site.
Vance T. Holliday was a faculty member of the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1986 to 2002. Since 2002, he has been affiliated with both the School of Anthropology and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Arizona. He is the executive director of the Argonaut Archaeological Research Fund, which is devoted to exploring the early peopling of the greater Southwest. His interests include Paleoindian archaeology and geoarchaeology, as well as Quaternary soils and paleoenvironments, and Palaeolithic geoarchaeology of eastern Europe.
Guadalupe Sánchez is at the National Institute of Anthropology and History and a member of the Mexican National System of Researchers. She has studied the geoarchaeology and lithic technology of sites in northern Mexico together with hunter-gather prehistory, paleoethnobotany, and paleoecology of Northern Mexico. Her research has led to over fifty articles in international journals and books. Her 2016 book, Los Primeros Mexicanos: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene People of Sonora, received honourable mention for Best Archaeological Investigation in Mexico.
Ismael Sánchez-Morales is the curator of anthropology at the Arizona Museum of Natural History. He specialises in the study of lithic technologies of archaeological hunter-gatherers and the interactions between foraging societies and the landscapes they occupy. His research focuses on the Paleoindian and Archaic occupations of northwest Mexico and the American Southwest and on the Middle Stone Age of North Africa.
Contributors
- JoaquIn Arroyo-Cabrales
- Jordan Bright
- James K. Feathers
- Edmund P. Gaines
- Thanairi Gamez
- Gregory W. L. Hodgins
- Vance T. Holliday
- Susan M. Mentzer
- Carmen Isela Ortega-Rosas
- Manuel R. Palacios-Fest
- Guadalupe Sánchez
- Ismael Sánchez-Morales
- Kayla B. Worthey
- Kristen Wroth
| Pm Supplier | Wiley & Sons Ltd |
|---|---|
| Pm Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
| Pm Isbn 10 | 0816552991 |
| Pm Isbn 13 | 9780816552993 |
| Pm Publication Date | 2024-09-24 |
| Pm Width | 216 |
| Pm Height | 17 |
| Pm Author | Holliday,Vance, Sánchez,Guadalupe, Sánchez-Morales,Ismael |
| Pm Longness | 279 |
- A Clovis Site in Sonora, Mexico
- Key Info: 9 colour & 92 b/w illustrations
- Author: Holliday,Vance, Sánchez,Guadalupe, Sánchez-Morales,Ismael
- Page Count: 270
- Publication Date: 2024-09-24
El Fin Del Mundo
- A Clovis Site in Sonora, Mexico
- Key Info: 9 colour & 92 b/w illustrations
- Author: Holliday,Vance, Sánchez,Guadalupe, Sánchez-Morales,Ismael
- Page Count: 270
- Publication Date: 2024-09-24
