Tierra del Fuego, Late Holocene, Middle Holocene, admixture, gene flow (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Nores. Nathan Nakatsuka. Pierre Luisi. Josefina Motti. David Reich.

This is an abstract from the "Increasing the Accessibility of Ancient DNA within Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. South Patagonia, the austral extreme of South America, has been inhabited for at least 12,600 years. Following European contact, five ethnic groups of hunter-gatherers (Yámana, Kawéskar, Selk’nam, Haush, and Aónikenk) were documented. They based their subsistence on two broad strategies optimized for maritime or terrestrial...