ISES   20394
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
The exploration and colonization of two southern deserts: case studies from the Puna and Patagonia
Autor/es:
FRANCO, NORA; MARTÍNEZ, JORGE G.; PINTAR, ELIZABETH
Lugar:
San Francisco, California
Reunión:
Congreso; 80th Meeting for the Society for American Archaeology; 2015
Institución organizadora:
Society for American Archaeology
Resumen:
The peopling of South America is a subject thathas been discussed from many angles, including timing, migration routes,genetics, etc and at various scales of analysis. In this paper we take on a supra-regionalscale of analysis and examine stone tool assemblages from a series ofPleistocene/Holocene transition and Early-Middle Holocene sites located in twodesert areas on the eastern side? of theAndes­­­?Patagonia and the high Puna­. Our objective is to assess how theseassemblages match up to the expectations of an exploration and colonizationmodel proposed for Patagonia. This comparison allows us to examine how this colonizationprocess might have varied in these two similar but yet different regions of theSouthern Cone, and to offer explanations about how the exploration andcolonization strategies used by early hunter-gatherers in desert environments variedin relation to their knowledge of the resource structure and the distributionof resources.