This volume includes a selection of papers derived from the IX Conference of the Pampas region of Argentina, held virtually in 2021 in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and organized by the National University of Mar del Plata.
Gustavo Federico Bonnat is an Assistant Researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET); and a member of the Laboratorio de Arqueologia Regional Bonaerense and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (INHUS). He is also an associate professor in the history departament at the Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Throughout of his career, he has focused on studying the lithic technology of early hunter-gatherer groups in the Pampas region (ca. 10,000 years BP) and obtained his PhD from the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Additionally, he has experience in studying lithic technology during the Aurignacian period in northwest Italy and conducting pXRF analysis on obsidian archaeological lithic assemblages from Papua New Guinea.