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- Of global anthropological and archaeological interest
- Reconstructs the cultural loss of marine groups in the archipelago
- Based on ecofactual, bioanthropological and contextual testimony recovered over 10 years of investigative work
Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)
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This book describes an archaeological investigation of human occupation in the northern area of the Patagonian archipelago in the far south of South America. It is of global anthropological and archaeological interest, dealing as it does with an archipelago characterised by a maze of islands, fiords, channels, volcanoes and continental glaciers, in an area which is still very sparsely inhabited with only scattered settlements. It was one of the last parts of the continent to be populated by man, with the arrival of marine hunter-gatherer-fishers. The arrival of human beings in this area, and their subsistence strategies in varied environments, constitute a new example of man's ability to adapt over the course of his history. It is also of interest to document how humans overcome some biogeographical barriers to occupy territories, and how other kinds of barrier restrict movement and access to other regions, leaving certain human groups isolated. Two hunter-gatherer traditions, one marine and one pedestrian, with very different cultural development processes, coexisted in this part of Patagonia separated by less than 100 km of mountains, volcanoes and glaciers. There is no evidence of contact between them over their whole time sequence; on the contrary, the archaeological and bioanthropological evidence indicates two independent axes of movement: one used by canoe groups along the Pacific coast and the other by pedestrian groups in the interior of the continent east of the Andes.
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Book Title: The Settlement of the Chonos Archipelago, Western Patagonia, Chile
Authors: Omar Reyes
Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54326-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54325-9Published: 20 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54328-0Published: 21 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54326-6Published: 19 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2366-3421
Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Geography, Archaeology, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Latin American History, Migration