Preliminary Investigations of Mobile Forager Landscape Learning Processes in Central Western Patagonia, Chile

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Central Western Patagonia is an area characterized by climatic and landscape contrasts, with a variety of ecotones within a defined area. This region is naturally divided into different river valleys, separated by steep, ice-capped mountains. One such valley, the Ibáñez River Valley, has been investigated archaeologically since the early 1970s. The Ibáñez Valley, stretching around 80 km east-west, features dozens of sites dating from the Early Holocene into the Terminal Holocene featuring residential occupations as well as rock art. However, even with this history of research and robust signature of human behavior, limited systematic archaeological survey has been conducted around the Río Ibáñez due to numerous factors (difficulty of terrain, research paradigms, etc.). In this paper, I show the results of preliminary research to synthesize findings from already-collected archaeological materials from the Río Ibáñez and new pedestrian survey from the southern extent of the valley. This preliminary research serves to reintegrate earlier findings from the Río Ibáñez with modern systematic survey, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of landscape learning patterns of mobile hunter-gatherer groups that occupied the region since the Early Holocene.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35795.0