Changes and Continuities of Hunting Practices from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene Among Nomadic Societies of the Patagonian Plateaus

• Main Authors: Miotti, Laura Lucia, Marchionni, Laura, Hermo, Dario Omar, Terranova, Enrique Daniel, Magnin, Lucia Angelica, Lynch, Virginia, Mosquera, Bruno Hernan, Vargas Gariglio, Jorgelina, Carden, Natalia Marina
• Other Authors: Belardi, Juan Bautista, Bozzutto, Damián Leandro, Fernandez, Pablo Marcelo, Moreno, Enrique Alejandro, Neme, Gustavo Adolfo
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: HUNTING STRATEGIES; HUNTER-GATHERERS SOCIETIES; PATAGONIA; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6; Patagonia; Argentina; Terranova
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/161432

The research developed from different lines of evidence in the central plateau of Santa Cruz and the Somuncurá plateau of Río Negro, provides information for approaching the hunting strategies carried out by hunter-gatherer societies who inhabited these massifs in the past. The information about both regions results from the analysis of archaeofauna, lithic technology, rock art, stone structures, special topographies and archaeological landscapes. In this work we introduce a summary of the progress achieved so far, from which we have managed to define patterns related to the hunting strategies developed in these Patagonian plateaus, and their variations along time. The results we discuss show changes in hunting strategies, linked to the incorporation of new technologies. While a close encounter strategy is proposed for the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and early Holocene, distance hunting strategies seem to become more relevant towards the mid and late Holocene. This change suggests that the tactics deployed over time tended to incorporate more social actors cooperating in hunting events. Fil: Miotti, Laura Lucia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; Argentina Fil: Marchionni, Laura. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; Argentina Fil: Hermo, Dario Omar. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; Argentina Fil: Terranova, Enrique Daniel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de ...