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Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial and Holocene of Patagonia

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The Patagonian glaciations developed since the latest Miocene (ca. 6 Ma) in multiple events, of varied duration and intensity. Most of the present glacial landscape is the outcome of the glacial modelling during the Pleistocene, since the Great Patagonian Glaciation (GPG; ca. 1 Ma). The Patagonian Andes were covered by a continuous mountain ice sheet, from 37º S to Cape Horn (56º S) in at least five major glaciations for more than 15 cold events in the last million years. The present drainage network was developed after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; ca. 24 cal. ka BP), particularly those cases with drainage reversal, when the glaciers began to melt due to global climatic changes. The environmental impact of Pleistocene glaciations extended all over Patagonia. The knowledge about the Last Glaciation, the Late Glacial and Holocene glaciations is very important because the human settling of the Patagonian landscape as we know it took place during this period. Moreover, the human colonization of Patagonia took place sometime after the Last Glacial Maximum and during the Late Glacial (ca. 18,000 to 10,000 years ago) and it was completed along the entire Early Holocene.

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The authors would like to thank all the colleagues which share fieldtrips and paper elaboration along the four decades of work devoted to the understanding of the Patagonian glaciations. CONICET, ANPCYT, and other national and foreign institutions have sponsored different research projects along these last four decades and in various environments and diverse geographical areas.

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  1. CONICET-CADIC, B. Houssay 200, (9410), Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

    Jorge Rabassa & Andrea Coronato

  2. Universidad Nacional de Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

    Andrea Coronato

  3. Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Sede Esquel, (9200), Esquel, Chubut, Argentina

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  4. Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica (CIEMEP), Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia San Juan Bosco - CONICET, Esquel, Chubut, Argentina

    Agustina Reato

  5. Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Córdoba, Cordoba, Argentina

    Jorge Rabassa

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Rabassa, J., Coronato, A., Martínez, O., Reato, A. (2022). Last Glacial Maximum, Late Glacial and Holocene of Patagonia. In: Miotti, L., Salemme, M., Hermo, D. (eds) Archaeology of Piedra Museo Locality. The Latin American Studies Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92503-1_2

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