Patagonia: a paradox for building images of the first Americans during the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition

Miotti, Laura

doi:10.1016/s1040-6182(02)00210-0

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“…Less well known, at least to North American-focused scholars, but significant in their number, setting, and generalized subsistence focus are a half-dozen Cloviscontemporary sites in Patagonia, situated along major rivers draining to the Atlanticnot Pacific-Ocean (Borrero 1999;Lavallé and Bahn 2000;Mena et al 2003;Miotti 2003;Miotti and Salemme 2003;Miotti et al 2002). The geographic distribution of the sites prompted Miotti (2003;also see Miotti andSalemme 2003 andScheinsohn 2003) to suggest that human colonization of southernmost South America followed both South American coasts and proceeded inland along rivers, either simultaneously or with advancement along the Atlantic Coast preceding that along the Pacific.…”

Section: The Americasmentioning

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“…The geographic distribution of the sites prompted Miotti (2003;also see Miotti andSalemme 2003 andScheinsohn 2003) to suggest that human colonization of southernmost South America followed both South American coasts and proceeded inland along rivers, either simultaneously or with advancement along the Atlantic Coast preceding that along the Pacific. Miotti (2003) noted, too, that evidence of Pleistocene occupation along the Atlantic Coast itself, if it exists, would likely now be submerged by the Argentinean Sea.…”

Section: The Americasmentioning

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A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

Pitblado

2011

J Archaeol Res

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This article synthesizes the 2000s-era ''peopling of the Americas'' data drawn from molecular biology, osteology, and archaeology. Collectively, they suggest that colonization proceeded in two pulses, both originating in western Beringia, and before that, south-central and southeastern Siberia. The first pulse occurred circa 16 k-15 k cal. B.P. by watercraft along the coast of Beringia and western North and South America. The second took place 1,000 years later and involved proto-Clovis hunter-gatherers who used the ice-free corridor as a conduit south. At least eight North American sites dating as far back as the Last Glacial Maximum suggest that the peopling picture may eventually need to change to accommodate an earlier than previously thought migration through the ice-free corridor. For now, the data are not strong enough to support this scenario, but they are tantalizingly close.

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Section: The Americasmentioning

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Section: The Americasmentioning

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A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

Pitblado

2011

J Archaeol Res

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“…Additionally, the presence of probable bone beads in Hakenasa and red pigments in Las Cuevas are key indicators of social activities that went beyond hunting and procurement of raw materials. Indeed, the absence of a specific theoretical framework for early colonizing strategies that can predict the use of such "rare" materials, reveals the over-simplification of explanations for early hunter-gatherer societies which focus solely on economic and technological aspects (Miotti, 2003). In more recent times, although only one piece of painted rock has been identified for the late Archaic Period in Patapatane, rock art of a naturalistic tradition can be encountered, without major stylistic changes, from the end of middle Archaic (6.7 cal kyr BP) up to the Formative periods (ca.…”

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The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America: Technology, mobility, and the development of a late Pleistocene/early Holocene Andean hunter-gatherer tradition in northern Chile

Osorio

Steele

Sepúlveda

et al. 2017

Quaternary International

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A B S T R A C T. Current scientific evidence shows that humans colonized South America at least 15,000 years ago, but there are still many unknown aspects of this process, including the major and minor migratory routes involved, and the pattern of successive occupation of a diverse continental mosaic of ecosystems. In this context, the role of the Andean highlands (_3400 meters above sea level) has been neglected, because of the supposedly harsh conditions for humans including hypoxia and cold climate. Nevertheless, the environmental and cultural resources available in the high Andes constitutes an important "megapatch" that should be assessed in terms of human settlement patterns. We review the evidence for late Pleistocene/ early Holocene hunter-gatherer occupation of one part of this megapatch, the northern Chilean Dry Puna, in its palaeoecological context. We focus on lithic technology, faunal remains, radiocarbon dates, and other archaeological materials related to different social activities, which allow us to suggest that groups of hunter-gatherers organized and adapted their way of life to highland ecosystems through logistical mobility, and curatorial strategies for lithic tool kits that included projectile points and other formalized tools. The morphology and technological processes involved are recognized over vast territories along the high Andes. We identify this material expression as the high south central Andean Archaic hunter-gatherer tradition, which also featured long distance mobile settlement systems and communication processes over this broad and distinct megapatch. More speculatively, we outline the hypothesis that these highland ecosystems constituted a suitable migratory route that may have been key for the early peopling of the continent, and contrast it with the alternative hypothesis of the initially secondary and seasonally intermittent exploitation of this habitat by hunter-gatherers dispersing along the Pacific coastal corridor.

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“…De acuerdo con este modelo, las áreas donde se sitúan los sitios mencionados debieron formar parte de un sistema de movilidad de los primeros cazadores-recolectores. Miotti (2003) postula un uso diferencial de los distintos paisajes de la región por las primeras sociedades. En tanto, Paunero (2009) subraya que cada uno de estos sitios muestra funcionalidades diferentes que no responden a un único patrón ocupacional.…”

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“…Posiblemente, los nódulos de basalto hayan sido empleados como yunques en esta tarea. Las características del conjunto lítico de CT apoyan la propuesta que las sociedades colonizadoras usaron diferencialmente el paisaje regional, con funcionalidades diversas para cada espacio (Miotti 2003;Paunero 2009). En este sentido, los estudios sobre tecnología lítica dan sustento a la hipótesis sobre la funcionalidad de CT (Paunero 2009).…”

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Producción, Consumo Y Espacialidad en Cueva Túnel, Meseta Central De Santa Cruz, Argentina

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En el presente artículo estudiamos la tecnología lítica del Componente Inferior del sitio Cueva Túnel, ubicado en la Meseta Central de Santa Cruz, Patagonia Argentina, datado en el Pleistoceno final. Centramos nuestro análisis en los procesos de producción y consumo de artefactos y en su articulación con la estructuración del espacio. Los resultados indican que la selección de las materias primas se vincula con una planificación de las tareas productivas en función de las actividades para las cuales se utilizarán dichos instrumentos. El sitio habría funcionado principalmente como un área de procesamiento primario de presas, en el marco de un circuito de movilidad regional.Palabras claves: Patagonia, tecnología lítica, producción, consumo, Pleistoceno Final. En el presente artículo estudiamos la tecnología lítica de los primeros grupos humanos que habitaron el sitio Cueva Túnel (CT), ubicado en la Meseta Central de Santa Cruz, Patagonia Argentina. Estas primeras ocupaciones registradas en el componente inferior del sitio han sido datadas en el Pleistoceno final.Centramos nuestro análisis en tres aspectos fundamentales: los procesos de producción y consumo de artefactos y su articulación con la estructuración del espacio. Estos se relacionan con distintos usos del paisaje, e implican la circulación de materias primas, la explotación de recursos naturales, la movilidad de los grupos y la funcionalidad de los sitios.Las evidencias de los niveles iniciales de CT se suman a aquellas registradas en otros sitios tempranos de la región, los que permitieron caracterizar las formas de vida de las primeras sociedades que habitaron el extremo austral de nuestro continente.

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Patagonia: a paradox for building images of the first Americans during the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition

Cited by 42 publications

References 56 publications

A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

A Tale of Two Migrations: Reconciling Recent Biological and Archaeological Evidence for the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America: Technology, mobility, and the development of a late Pleistocene/early Holocene Andean hunter-gatherer tradition in northern Chile

Producción, Consumo Y Espacialidad en Cueva Túnel, Meseta Central De Santa Cruz, Argentina

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