GS14



GS14

Room 2.103

Prehistory of the Americas / Préhistoire des Amériques

Session organizers: Rafael Suárez, Radosław Palonka

GS14​, Thu Sep 3 2026, 9:00 - 16:10, Room 2.103

9:00-9:20 - Introduction / Radosław Palonka, Rafael Suárez

9:20-9:40 - Pre-LGM Occupation of Alberta: A 30-Year Research Retrospective / Jiri Chlachula

9:40-10:00 - Late Pleistocene archaeology at the Holzman Site, Alaska, U.S.A. / Kathryn E. Krasinski, Brian T. Wygal, Barbara A. Crass, Charles E. Holmes

10:00-10:20 - Peopling Central America: Stone Tool Technology and Settlement Dynamics in the Terminal Pleistocene / Jon C. Lohse, Mike McBride, Victoria C. Pagano, Sébastien Perrot-Minnot

10:20-10:40 - The Painted Forest: Rock Art, Subsistence, and the Early Peopling of Amazonia / Jose Iriarte

10:40-11:00 - Beyond Regionalization: Interregional Connectivity in the Early Peopling of the Southern Cone of South America / Rafael Suárez

11:00-11:30 - Coffee break

11:30-11:50 - 2000 years of human history in the Mesa Verde region: Analyzing of Ancestral Pueblo, historic Ute, and Euro-American architecture, rock art, and landscape / Bartosz Foryś, Radosław Palonka

11:50-12:10 - Modeling Late Holocene Expansions in Lowland Eastern South America: Simulation of Diffusion Processes / Jonas Gregorio de Souza, Luiz Phellipe Silva de Lima, Igor Pedroza

12:10-12:30 - Reframing Ancient Huarmey: Local Prehistory and Heritage Narratives on the Peruvian North Coast / Miłosz Giersz, Patrycja Prządka-Giersz

12:30-12:50 - Fires and Farming: Tracking anthropogenic fire utilisation at the onset of agriculture in the Bladen Nature Reserve, southern Belize / Joseph Hirst, Sara Eshleman, Harper Dine, Keith Prufer, and Mark Robinson

12:50-13:10 - Interregional Fashion or Cultural Tradition? On decorated celtiforms from Central America and the need for new methodological frameworks / Jan Szymański

13:30-14:30 - Lunch

14:30-14:50 - Long-Term Interaction Networks and Obsidian Circulation in the Salar de Atacama Basin (23ºS / 68ºW, 9500 BC – 1500 AD) / Rodrigo Loyola

14:50-15:10 - Tracing the Evolution of Past Blue Economies: A Framework for Understanding economic activities in Coastal Subsistence Systems in the Atacama Desert / María Coto-Sarmiento, Debora Zurro, Antonio Canepa-Oneto, Sandra Rebolledo Canales, Virginia Ahedo, Josema Galán, Lucia López-López

15:10-15:30 - Plantscapes of Far-Northern Peru: Starch and Phytolith Evidence for Human–Faunal–Floral Interactions in Piura (415 BCE – 650 CE) / Carlos Flores Manzano, Sarah Joy Martini

15:30-15:50 - Colors of the Andes: Natural Dyes and Textile Technology in Pre-Hispanic and Contemporary Peru / Emanuela Rudnicka

15:50-16:10 - Compositional Analysis of Preclassic Maya Pottery and Least Cost Path Algorithm as Tools for the Reconstruction of Ancient Exchange Networks / Dawid Król