Early Peopling And Coastal Archeology In Patagonia And Tierra Del Fuego: Information Gap, Preconceptions And Perspectives
Reyes Baez, Omar Rodrigo
- 1Laboratorio de Antropología
- 2Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas
- 3Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano
- 4Instituto de Diversidad y Evolución Austral
- 5
Journal
Intersecciones En Antropologia
ISSN
1666-2105
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Volume
19
Start page
63
End page
97
The lack of early occupations in coastal areas of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego contrasts with the existing evidence for other sectors of America. The peopling of the southern end of this continent shows a significant difference between the initial occupation of steppe areas during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and the later colonization of coastal environments in the Mid-Holocene. This situation seems to be increasingly consolidated with the development of coastal research in the last decades. However, the substantial development of these studies has focused on shell middens, which has imposed some analytical bias on our conception of the coastal archaeological landscape. This is due to the predominance of interpretative approaches to explore human adaptations in maritime environments and the advantages conferred by shell middens in terms of preservation, resolution and archaeological visibility. The difficulty that this situation imposes is that there are no reasons to assume the formation of shell mounds from the initial moments of a regional sequence. This promotes the need to devise surveys and predictive models from interdisciplinary perspectives with scarce development in the region. Copyright © Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - UNCPBA - Argentina.
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