CADIC   02618
CENTRO AUSTRAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Exploring the zooarchaeological supra regional record in Tierra del Fuego, the use of Isoscapes and Bonescapes
Autor/es:
SANTIAGO FERNANDO; VÁZQUEZ MARTÍN
Lugar:
San Rafael
Reunión:
Congreso; 12da International Conference of Archaeozoology; 2014
Resumen:
Tierra del Fuego is an extensive archipelago located farther south of South America. The human presence goes back from the end of Pleistocene to the twentieth century, with several hunter-gatherer lifestyles were recorded.This contribution compiles existing zooarchaeological data from 90 sites deployed in different sectors of Tierra del Fuego (representing 114 different contexts).  Isotopic data (δ15N y δ13C) of 40 human remains were examined and incorporated into the analysis, as well. Through the compilation of available zooarchaeological analysis we can confirm that the fuegian archaeofaunal sets are composed by different proportions of eight taxonomic categories: Pinnipeds, Birds, Camelids, Fish, Rodents, Cetaceans, Canidae and Mustelidae.Whereas most of the zooarchaeological analyses have been performed at the site level or include information from the same region a supra-regional scale is used herein to understand how different are structured the zooarchaeological assemblages in its natural and cultural context, from a broader geographic perspective.Using GIS we have interpolated zooarchaeological and isotopic data, building maps -?Bonescapes? and ?Isoscapes?- that result very useful for visualizing patterns and trends of human use of wildlife in the landscape, as well as to generate new bone and isotopic landscapes by incorporating data from surrounding areas. This methodology should facilitate the analysis of large multi-site datasets.