Gustavo Politis

Archaeologist. Doctorado (1984)  Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). Currently  Researcher of CONICET (Argentina) and Director oo the Institute  INCUAPA (Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas  del Cuaternario Pampeano). Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos Aires and at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata.  British Academy Visiting Professor at Cambidge University (1992), Visiting Porfessor at Southampton University (1994) and at Stanford University (2001). Author of 4 books and 138 papers in academic journals and book chapters. Main research interest: hunter-gatherers  peopling of the Americas, ethnoarchaeology of tropical forest hunter-gatherers and archaeological theory.