Maritime Settlement of Fuego-Patagonia Archipelago: New Archaeological Records from the Middle Holocene (6300-5000 BP) at Navarino Island, Chile (55º S / 67º W)

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the context of research reassessing the chronology and distribution of early evidence for maritime settlement at Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, we have developed surveys in different areas of the archipelago to expand the geographical scale of the search, thus allowing us to incorporate aspects related to the geographical directionality of the process. The work that we present reports new findings detected in Navarino Island. They correspond to the sites Ensenada Villarino 61 and Wulaia 15, located in the north and west coast of the Island, whose dates place them between 5000-6300 BP, respectively. The main characteristics of the technological assemblages (lithic and bone) and the subsistence strategies deployed are reported, comparing these records with other sites of this period in the region. This presentation is funded by grants: FONDECYT 1211976, FONDECYT 1200727, ANID/BASAL FB210018.

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• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40362.0