Hunter-Gatherer mobility and technological landscapes in southernmost South America: a statistical learning approach

BRIZ I GODINO, IVAN; AHEDO, VIRGINIA; ÁLVAREZ, MYRIAN; PAL, NÉLIDA; TURNES, LUCAS; SANTOS, JOSÉ IGNACIO; ZURRO, DÉBORA; CARO, JORGE; GALÁN, JOSÉ MANUEL

Royal Society Open Science

The Royal Society Publishing

Año: 2018 vol. 5

The present work aims to quantitatively explore and understand the relationship between mobility types (nautical versus pedestrian), specific technological traits and shared technological knowledge in pedestrian hunter?gatherer and nautical hunter?fisher?gatherer societies from the southernmost portion of South America. To that end, advanced statistical learning techniques are used: state-of-the-artclassification algorithms and variable importance analyses.Results show a strong relationship between technological knowledge, traits and mobility types.