Littoral adaptation at the southern end of South America

LA Orquera, D Legoupil, EL Piana - Quaternary International, 2011 - Elsevier
The southwestern fringe of Patagonia and the Fuegian Archipelago constitute an area
characterised by a very irregular coast and dense forests. From 6400 BP to the nineteenth …

Sea nomads of the Beagle Channel in Southernmost South America: over six thousand years of coastal adaptation and stability

LA Orquera, EL Piana - The Journal of Island and Coastal …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
At the southern tip of South America, the archaeology of the Beagle Channel-Cape Horn
region documents a clear specialization on the exploitation of littoral and nearshore …

[HTML][HTML] Using combined biomolecular methods to explore whale exploitation and social aggregation in hunter–gatherer–fisher society in Tierra del Fuego

S Evans, IB i Godino, M Álvarez, K Rowsell… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Cetaceans were an important food and raw material resource for the South American hunter–
gatherer–fisher (HGF) communities of Tierra del Fuego. Historic ethnographic evidence …

Biogeographic barriers in the circulation and interaction of hunter-gatherer marine fishers: The role of the Taitao Peninsula and the Gulf of Penas (∼ 47° S) in the …

O Reyes, C Méndez, M San Román, C Belmar… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Archaeological research on the settlement of the Patagonian archipelago in the extreme
South of South America by groups of hunter-gatherers, fishers or canoeists involves both an …

The peopling of the Fuego-Patagonian fjords by littoral hunter–gatherers after the mid-Holocene H1 eruption of Hudson Volcano

A Prieto, CR Stern, JE Estévez - Quaternary International, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Early Holocene (> 8500 cal BP) littoral sites are well documented along the Pacific
coast of Chile north of 32° S, but they do not occur south of this latitude. It has been …

Antiquity and geographic distribution of cranial modification among the prehistoric groups of F uego‐P atagonia, C hile

MP Alfonso‐Durrruty, BT Giles, N Misarti… - American journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Nineteenth and twentieth century documents testify that four ethnic groups,
generally classified as terrestrial hunters or canoe nomads, inhabited Fuego‐Patagonia …

Art in time. Diachronic rates of change in the decoration of bone artefacts from the Beagle Channel region (Tierra del Fuego, Southern South America)

D Fiore - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper explores the differential rates of diachronic change developed by diverse
features of portable art in southern Tierra del Fuego. It is argued that decorative designs and …

Maritime hunter-gatherers in the chonos archipelago (43 50'–46 50'S), Western Patagonian Channels

OR Báez, M Moraga, C Méndez… - The Journal of Island …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the current advances in archeological research on the Western
Patagonian Channels, specifically the Chonos Archipelago (43° 50'–46° 50'S). Based on a …

Relationships between terrestrial animal exploitation, marine hunter-gatherers and palaeoenvironmental conditions during the Middle-Late Holocene in the Beagle …

M Fernández, JF Ponce, FJ Zangrando… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Palaeoenvironmental information collected from zooarchaeological (guanaco exploitation)
and palynological (pollen and fungal remains) records from Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los …

Pinniped zooarchaeological studies in Southern Patagonia: current issues and future research agenda

AS Muñoz - Trekking the shore: changing coastlines and the …, 2011 - Springer
Sea lions have been one of the main resources used by Holocene hunter–gatherers in
Southern Patagonia, but many aspects of their exploitation still remain to be studied if we are …