The Function of Small Rockshelters in the Magallanes IV Phase Settlement System (South Patagonia)

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ID3152237
AuthorsJulieta Gómez Otero (0000-0001-7636-2057, Centro Científico Tecnológico Patagónico, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume4
Issue4
Pages325-345
Publication date1993-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/972071
OpenAlexW2328240770
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited22

Though most archaeological sites studied in South Patagonia are caves and rockshelters, archaeologists have not discussed the function of these sites in the context of a regional settlement system. Research in two small rockshelters with cultural assemblages dating to the Magallanes IV phase allowed me to recognize that it was almost impossible to interpret rockshelter function by applying some settlement-system models. The models of Binford and of Borrero had failed to explain how, despite the small size of these sites and the small number of cultural materials recovered from them, there was evidence of multiple activities, well-made lithic and bone tools, and guanaco-bone specimens of different economic value. I discuss and interpret the function of small rockshelters in the settlement system of the Magallanes IV phase. I assume that Magallanes IV phase hunters developed foraging strategies and used portable tents the same as sixteenth-century southern Patagonian hunters did

Archaeology · Biology · Cave · Context (archaeology · Evolutionary biology · Foraging · Function (biology · Geography · Settlement (finance · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology

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