INVESTIGADORES
SANTIAGO Fernando Carlos
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
How to get guanacos. Hunting patterns of Lama guanicoe, a view from Las Vueltas 1 site, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Autor/es:
SANTIAGO FERNANDO; SALEMME MÓNICA
Reunión:
Congreso; 12da Conferencia Internacional ICAZ.; 2014
Resumen:
Results of our on-going research on the exploitation and hunting
patterns of guanaco (Lama guanicoe) in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, are
presented herein. We focus on a single deposit of densely packed guanaco
bones from Las Vueltas 1, an open-air site located at the Rio Chico
Basin in the northern Fuegian steppes. The stratigraphic record of
more than twenty thousand bones and more than five thousand stone tools
in 37,5 square meters, makes the site Las Vueltas 1 very unusual. It is a
multicomponent site, where the best defined context (providing more
information) is the 3rd event of occupation (ca. 550 years BP). Though
guanaco is the species of highest frequencies, other species are
represented, like rodents (Ctenomys sp.), canids, birds and mollusks.Different
questions and hypotheses are encouraged using several frames of
reference to test them: taxonomic and quantitative analysis, taphonomy
approaches, analysis of natural and anthropic modifications, and review
of ethnographic sources, as well. This site has been interpreted as a
place where many animals were trapped and hunted in each event, in more
than one occasion since at least the beginning of initial Late Holocene,
taking advantage of the surrounding topography.LV1 site can be taken as a window for understanding hunting and butchering practices in the late Holocene in Patagonia.