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- Title
Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego.
- Authors
Morello, Flavia; Borrero, Luis; Massone, Mauricio; Stern, Charles; García-Herbst, Arleen; McCulloch, Robert; Arroyo-Kalin, Manuel; Calás, Elisa; Torres, Jimena; Prieto, Alfredo; Martinez, Ismael; Bahamonde, Gabriel; Cárdenas, Pedro
- Abstract
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encountered by the first European visitors in the sixteenth century. The study also provides a striking example of interaction across challenging natural barriers.
- Subjects
TIERRA del Fuego (Argentina &; Chile); ARGENTINA; CHILE; SOUTH America; HUNTER-gatherer societies; PREHISTORIC settlements; PREHISTORIC peoples; HUMAN migrations; ISLAND archaeology; ETHNOLOGY
- Publication
Antiquity, 2012, Vol 86, Issue 331, p71
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00062463