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Título:
Guanaco Kill zone: the case of Las Vueltas 1 site, Tierra del Fuego
Autor/es:
SANTIAGO, FERNANDO; SALEMME, MÓNICA; ORÍA, JIMENA
Lugar:
París
Reunión:
Conferencia; 11th International Conference of Archaeozoology; 2010
Institución organizadora:
Muséum National d´Histoire Naturelle
Resumen:
The record of more than six thousand bones in 18,75 square meters in
stratigraphy makes Las Vueltas 1 a very special locus. The site is located
in a land stripe between two lakes, surrounded by low hills built on Tertiary
sediments where 90 percent of the excavated bones belong to a
single species, Lama guanicoe. Several frames of reference were used
to analyse the faunal assemblage: quantitative analysis, natural and
anthropic modifications, taphonomic approaches, and a review of ethnographic
sources.
In the site has been trapped many animals in each hunting event, taking
advantage of the surrounding topography, which makes possible
the herding of the animals to a central point. There, using bows and
arrows, the animals would have been killed.
The characteristics of the assemblage, the environment and the radiocarbon
dating allow us to interpret this location as a guanaco kill site in
the Fuegian steppe during the Holocene, since ca. 3200 to 530 year B.P.
At least three events have been identified, being the latest the better
defined.locus. The site is located
in a land stripe between two lakes, surrounded by low hills built on Tertiary
sediments where 90 percent of the excavated bones belong to a
single species, Lama guanicoe. Several frames of reference were used
to analyse the faunal assemblage: quantitative analysis, natural and
anthropic modifications, taphonomic approaches, and a review of ethnographic
sources.
In the site has been trapped many animals in each hunting event, taking
advantage of the surrounding topography, which makes possible
the herding of the animals to a central point. There, using bows and
arrows, the animals would have been killed.
The characteristics of the assemblage, the environment and the radiocarbon
dating allow us to interpret this location as a guanaco kill site in
the Fuegian steppe during the Holocene, since ca. 3200 to 530 year B.P.
At least three events have been identified, being the latest the better
defined.Lama guanicoe. Several frames of reference were used
to analyse the faunal assemblage: quantitative analysis, natural and
anthropic modifications, taphonomic approaches, and a review of ethnographic
sources.
In the site has been trapped many animals in each hunting event, taking
advantage of the surrounding topography, which makes possible
the herding of the animals to a central point. There, using bows and
arrows, the animals would have been killed.
The characteristics of the assemblage, the environment and the radiocarbon
dating allow us to interpret this location as a guanaco kill site in
the Fuegian steppe during the Holocene, since ca. 3200 to 530 year B.P.
At least three events have been identified, being the latest the better
defined.ca. 3200 to 530 year B.P.
At least three events have been identified, being the latest the better
defined.