Meet for lunch in Tierra del Fuego: a new ethnoarchaeological project

BRIZ, I.; ALVAREZ, M.; ZURRO, D.; CARO, J.

Antiquity´s Project Gallery

University of York

Año: 2009 vol. 083 p. 1 - 4

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Our project, Social aggregation: a Yámana society´s short term episode to analyse social interaction, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, is designed to identify the material markers which throw light on the nature of the social relationships and networks embedded in social aggregation events developed by hunter-gatherer and fisher societies who lived at the uttermost tip of South America. The project´s ethnoarchaeological approach involves the critical use of comparative data from historically documented populations to develop applicable models and methods that relate to material culture variation while also increasing socio-historical knowledge in our case study.