Changes and Continuities on Recent Past Human Occupations in Continental Southern Patagonia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Archaeology of the Southern Cone" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Human occupation of the last centuries in continental southern Patagonia has been described as a stage in which a great variability of processes stand out, such as the arrival of allochthonous groups, the introduction of new resources such as horses, sheep and industrialized products, the emergence of stable settlements, along with the division of the landscape into livestock production units. All these changes and processes triggered organizational and technological adaptations in the local hunting populations, as well as forms of cattle occupation suitable to each environment. This stage has been approached archaeologically taking into account basins as spatial unit, describing the particularities of the changes and continuities in different locations. In this context, it is especially important to address the research on a larger spatial scale, which considers global historical processes while highlighting local particularities. Thus, it is proposed to compare the current regions of middle west Santa Cruz (Argentina) and Aysén (Chile), with the aim of describing and understanding their historical trajectories and the current scenario.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Current Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Archaeology of the Southern Cone   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38352.0