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Zooarchaeological research undertaken within Argentinean archaeology during the 1991-2010 period is analyzed according to national periodical publications and the proceedings of national archaeological meetings, with the aim of assessing the representation of taphonomic principles originated in the Neotropics, the biogeographical region encompassing Argentina. The relative importance of these autochthonous principles within this literature is discussed by taking their Neotropical origin as a proxy of the application of relevant taphonomic principles. The results show that application of taphonomic principles originated in the same study area where they are applied are dominant, along with those generated in the same biogeographical subregion, while representation of those generated in the Neotropics generally is variable through time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This volume includes seven papers that were presented at the First Academic Meeting of the Neotropical Zooarchaeology Working Group (ICAZ), which was held in 2012 at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile. The meeting dealt with the nature of Neotropical zooarchaeological records and its particularities, as well as, the diversity of human-animal interactions through time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]