IMHICIHU   13380
INSTITUTO MULTIDISCIPLINARIO DE HISTORIA Y CIENCIAS HUMANAS
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Sealer´s sledge excavated on Livingston Island, South Shetlands Islands
Autor/es:
PEARSON, MICHAEL; STEHBERG, RUBEN; ZARANKIN, ANDRES; SENATORE, MARIA XIMENA; GATICA, CARONINA
Revista:
Polar Record
Editorial:
Cambridge University Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Cambridge, UK; Año: 2008 vol. 44 p. 362 - 364
Resumen:
During archaeological fieldwork in January 2007, the authors excavated the components of a remarkably complete sledge, probably dating to the nineteenth century, that appeared to have been cached on the west coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands group. The context for the wider study of sealing sites has been published previously (Stehberg 2003; Pearson and Stehberg 2006; Zarankin and Senatore 2005; Zarankin and Senatore 2007). The site where the sledge was located, adjacent to a gentoo penguin rookery halfway between Point Smellie and Devil’s Point, may be one reported by British field workers in the 1950s (see Lewis–Smith and Simpson 1987: 57, site 11). However, the description of that site, as ‘the base of a wooden hut built on a sealer’s cargo sledge’, with ‘a large amount of charcoal and charred timber’ and the remains of an iron stove and planks coated in blubber, do not match the description of the site as excavated.