The incorporation of glass and stoneware among southern continental Patagonian and Fuegian hunter-gatherers from the late sixteenth to the twentieth century.

MARIA JOSE SALETTA; AMALIA NUEVO DELAUNAY; FLAVIA CARBALLO MARINA; DE ANGELIS, HERNAN; JUAN BAUTISTA BELARDI

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The early peopling of continental Patagonia started c. 12,000 years BP, whereas that of theisland of Tierra del Fuego is dated c. 10,000 years BP (Borrero 2001), at a time when theMagellan Strait did not exist (Martin & Borrero 2015) (Figure 1). Ever since the region as awhole was inhabited by highly mobile societies. The history of the different hunter-gatherers?indigenous groups inhabiting the region was profoundly affected by the arrival of Europeansin southern Patagonia during the sixteenth century [Pigafetta 1946 (1536)], resulting inchanges in their lifeways (e.g. Borrero 1991; Martinic 1995).Intensive European colonization of the area only began in the nineteenth century. By this dateethnographic groups of southern continental Patagonia, the Aonikenk, were using horses forhunting; their main prey was the guanaco (Lama guanicoe), a generalist, medium-sized socialcamelid (90-120 kg) (e.g. Martinic 1995). The groups inhabiting the northern steppe of Tierradel Fuego, known as Selk´nam, still hunted on foot (mostly guanaco) (e.g. Borrero 2001),while the canoe people who lived in the southern and western channels had a marine-orienteddiet (sea mammals, birds, fishes and mussels) (e.g. Orquera et al. 2011).