Human-Environment System Change and Stability in the Farming/Hunter Gatherer Transition

SUGRAÑES NURIA; GIL ADOLFO; SALGÁN MARÍA LAURA; NEME GUSTAVO; POMPEI MARÍA DE LA PAZ

San Rafael, Mendoza

Workshop; PalEOclimate and the PeopLing of the Earth (People 3000); 2018

The human-environment system change and stability in the farming/hunter-gatherer transition Central Western Argentina shows during historical times a surprising mosaic of human strategies, ranging from populations with domestic plants and animals in one extreme, to populations focused on wild resources in the other. In general, this variation was associated with more sedentary and dense populations opposed to more mobile and scattered populations. Using radiocarbon SPD as a demographic proxy, we explore differences in demographic trajectories in different areas of the region and how variable they were during the last 3000 years. The results show that the incorporation and spread of domesticates was associated with a peak in human demography and that the hunter gatherer archaeological record suggests changes in its organization.