Abstract
We present the sigmodontine assemblage from lower and middle Holocene recorded in the archaeological site RS-TQ-58: Afonso Garivaldino Rodrigues (County of Brochier, State of Rio Grande do Sul). A total of 16 species are detected from the study of 572 specimens, about half of which belonging to the tribe Akodontini. The assemblage recorded include species which typically inhabit open areas (e.g. Calomys sp., Gyldenstolpia sp., Kunsia tomentosus) and also several considered as forest dewellers (e.g. Delomys sp., Juliomys sp., Sooretamys angouya). Necromys obscurus, a sigmodontine today restricted to Central Argentina and Southern Uruguay, is abundantly recorded in Garivaldino and reported for the first time to the Quaternary from Brazil. Thaptomys nigrita and Wilfredomys oenax have in Garivaldino their first records to the Holocene from Rio Grande do Sul State. Compared to the recent assemblage of sigmodontine rodents recorded in Rio Grande do Sul, Pseudoryzomys simplex, K. tomentosus, N. obscurus and Gyldenstolpia sp. became regionally extinct. The sigmodontine assemblage detected in Garivaldino is richest than a previously studied one from Pilger site. The evidence of both sites reflects changes in the species composition, which can be linked with a progressive transformation of the general landscape from mostly open grasslands to forests.
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