Human occupation of desert coastal areas in Patagonia and Namaqualand. Some comparative ideas

FEDERICO L. SCARTASCINI; GENEVIVE DEWAR

Santiago

Workshop; SPAN- Bridging the Atlantic: Human Palaeodemography in the Drylands of the Southern Hemisphere; 2017

Some comparative ideas are explored in Patagonia and Namaqualand desert coastal areas. Three key points are disscused, TEMPOS, INTENSIFICATION and RESILIENCE in both areas. Despite the big chronological and cultural diferences in both regions some similar process occurs in this desert coastal areas.