Ancient Hunting Strategies in Southern South America. An introduction

JUAN BAUTISTA BELARDI; DAMIÁN BOZZUTO; PABLO MARCELO FERNÁNDEZ; ENRIQUE MORENO; GUSTAVO NEME

Ancient Hunting Strategies in Southern South America

Springer Nature

Año: 2021; p. 5 - 15

Food obtaining strategies and tactics have always played a central role in archaeologicalinvestigations. Among them, knowledge about hunting and fishing activityhas attracted particular interest. As Lee and Devore (1968) early pointed out, 90% ofthe time involved in human evolution was characterized as hunter-gatherer societies.This implies a vast number of human groups throughout time and space focused theireconomies on hunting and fishing practices along with food gathering. The socioeconomichunting-fishing-gathering systems persist, and this has to do both withtheir higher benefits compared to other economic alternatives, and with the socialcost of ceasing hunting (Kramer and Codding 2016). Beyond the historical depth andpersistence of this way of acquiring resources, research interest was placed on understandingactivities and social relations developed in hunting practice.