Hunting blinds from plateaus and hills in Southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina): Tactics and beyond.

Summary

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss the distribution patterns of Late Holocene hunting blinds from two distinct environments of southern Patagonia (Argentina): basaltic plateaus and hills. These are mostly semicircular stone structures built for the hunt of guanaco (Lama guanicoe), a medium-size wild camelid that was the main staple for the hunter-gatherer populations throughout the Holocene. Despite of the existence of a number of shared traits (e.g. obsidian from the same source, similar rock art motifs) that suggest tight social ties and interactions, both environments show differences in frequency and diversity of hunting blinds as well as in the inferred tactics implemented by the hunters, which can be explained by differences in topography, seasonality, and prey biomass.

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