Living in/visiting Andean Dead Ends: Measuring the Intensity of Human Land Use at the Fringes of the Northern Ice Field.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Luis Borrero´s conception of the occupation of Andean dead ends is a pivotal framework for the study of western valleys of Patagonia. Main circulation routes, most likely located at the east of this region, made western valleys to be marginally occupied, possibly in a seasonal basis and a complementary fashion, hence less intensely visited. Yet, these areas are highly sensitive to changes in mobility and land use, and thus are informative of human processes on broader spatial scales. The human occupation of the Andes of Patagonia is still understudied. When considering such areas, the sector bounded by the General Carrera and Cochrane lakes and the Northern Ice field stands as a remarkable example of dead end. Our main goal is to study human occupation and environmental interactions by addressing large temporal and spatial scales and focusing on the assessment of occupational redundancy, variability in technology and subsistence, and the changes in mobility strategies. This research project seeks an understanding of human-environmental dynamics to unveil the occupation of this "dead end" in the context of the broader region. FONDECYT 1180306.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)   •
• Patagonian Evolutionary Archaeology and Human Paleoecology: Commending the Legacy (Still in the Making) of Luis Alberto Borrero in the Interpretation of Hunter-Gatherer Studies of the Southern Cone

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Abstract Id(s): 22941