Diet Among Marine Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of the Northern Patagonian Channels (41°50’- 47° S): Assessing Plant Use and Consumption through Dental Calculus Studies

Summary

In the western Patagonian channels, the archaeofaunistic record, technological and isotopic studies show subsistence strategies based on fishing, hunting and gathering of marine resources. Unfortunately the consumption of plant resources still has not been assessed for this area and the consumption of C3 plants is hard to detect though these type of analysis. Our aim is to evaluate the consumption of wild and domesticated plants and parafunctional use of the teeth for the processing of plant fibers. For this study we examined the microfossil evidence contained in the tooth calculus of 47 individuals from 17 sites from the Chiloé and Chonos archipelagos. In the cases that isotopic information is available, we shall compare and evaluate how the integration of both types of information -isotopic and microfossils- can contribute in the general overview of diet reconstruction. FONDECYT Grant # 1170726.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21609