Hunter-gatherers, biogeographic barriers and the development of human settlement in Tierra del Fuego

Bibliographic Data

ID3579995
AuthorsFlavia Morello (0000-0001-6379-7342, Universidad de Magallanes), Luis Alberto Borrero (0000-0002-8193-1573, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Luis Borrero, Mauricio Massone (University of Concepción), Charles R Stern (0000-0002-6993-8393, University of Colorado Boulder), Charles Stern (0000-0003-1381-7119), Arleen García-Herbst, Arleen E Garcia-Herbst (University of California, Santa Barbara), Robert Mcculloch (0000-0001-5542-3703, University of Stirling), Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (0000-0002-9024-8100, Museum of London Archaeology), Elisa Calás (University of Chile), Jimena Torres (0000-0002-1761-8056, Université Paris Cité), A Prieto (0000-0001-7622-2353, Universidad de Magallanes), Ismael Martinez (0000-0003-2603-3305, University of Chile), Gabriel Bahamonde (Universidad de Magallanes), Pedro Cárdenas (Universidad de Magallanes)
Year2012
Volume86
Issue331
Pages71-87
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00062463
OpenAlexW1866234238
LanguageEN
Citations received59
References cited17

Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime hunter-gatherers (in canoes) with previous terrestrial occupants pre-echoes the culturally distinctive groups encountered by the first European visitors in the sixteenth century. The study also provides a striking example of interaction across challenging natural barriers

Archaeology · China · Ethnology · Geography · Mainland · Mainland China · Natural (archaeology) · Settlement (finance) · Tierra · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology