Possible Fishing Structures on the West Coast of San Matías Gulf, Río Negro, Patagonia Argentina

MARCELO CARDILLO; FEDERICO L. SCARTASCINI

Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology

Taylor & Francis Group

Año: 2016 p. 133 - 137

1556-4894

Systematic archaeological studies carried out in the San Matias Gulfarea for over 10 years show an intensive fishing signal, one of the mostprominent of the Patagonian Atlantic coast. These fishing activities weredated from ca. 6000 to 400 BP. We detect at least three rocky structuresin the muddy estuarine coast of Islote Lobos archaeological locality.Because of their location and appearance, these rock alignments re-semble stone weirs or fish traps like those recorded worldwide. Thefindings reported here are of great relevance because no other similardevices were detected on the continental coast of Patagonia Argentinato date.