RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Between the Forest and the Sea: Hunter-Gatherer Occupations in the Subantarctic Forests in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 144
OP 157
DO 10.1353/arc.0.0022
VO 46
IS 1-2
A1 Mansur, María Estela
A1 Piqué, Raquel
YR 2009
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/46/1-2/144.abstract
AB Tierra del Fuego is one of the southernmost insular territories of the planet. Hunter-gatherer populations inhabited it from the end of the last glaciation up to the beginning of the twentieth century. Different archaeological sites give testimony of strategies adopted by hunter-gatherers in the occupation of the insular territory. Nevertheless, most of the investigations concentrate on the northern and central steppes and on the southern coasts. The goal of our research is to study the characteristics of human occupation in the central forests. Fieldwork has led to the discovery of archaeological sites in different environments, in a variety of locations, and displaying wide functional variability. Besides campsites we have also discovered and studied a ceremonial site. The results summarized here confirm that the subantarctic forest constituted an abundant environment; a privileged landscape rich in different kinds of resources, and intensely exploited by the native populations.