Precisando La Cronología Para La Inhumación Tipo Chenque, Valle Del Río Cisnes (Aisén, Chile), Patagonia Central

Abstract

RESUMENLas investigaciones realizadas a la fecha en el valle del río Cisnes en la Región de Aisén carecían de información bioantropológica. El reciente hallazgo de un chenque disturbado con osamentas humanas entrega datos en torno a estos contextos fúnebres, incluyendo información cronológica e isotópica. La mayoría de las edades conocidas para este tipo de entierros a cielo abierto en Pampa-Patagonia se circunscriben al último milenio. Los resultados obtenidos en Pampa El Frío se suman a otros que permiten retrotraer en cerca de 400 años este patrón mortuorio.PALABRAS CLAVES: restos humanos, chenques, cronología, Patagonia central. PRECISING THE CHRONOLOGY FOR THE CHENQUE BURIAL-TYPE, CISNES RIVER BASIN (AISÉN, CHILE), CENTRAL PATAGONIAABSTRACT Current research at Cisnes river basin lacked bioanthropological information. The recent finding of a disturbed chenque bearing human remains provides data related to these funerary contexts, including chronological and isotopic information. The majority of known ages for this open-air burial-type in Pampa-Patagonia are limited to the last millennium. Results obtained at Pampa El Frío and others take back this mortuary pattern in 400 years.

Isotopic Ecology and Human Diets in the Forest–Steppe Ecotone, Aisén Region, Central‐Western Patagonia, Chile

“…In this paper, we present isotopic results for 22 new faunal samples (Table ) and 3 new samples on human remains (Table ). This information adds to 13 previous determinations for faunal samples of huemul and pudú (Barberena et al ., ), and 7 samples from human remains (Reyes & Méndez, ; Reyes et al ., ).…”

“…In this paper, we expand on results previously published, contributing to build a stronger isotopic database by providing δ 13 C collagen and δ 15 N collagen values on a wider faunal assemblage, which includes archaeological and recent samples from the forest–steppe ecotone. New information on human remains is also presented and discussed in the context of previous results (Reyes & Méndez, ; Reyes et al ., ). This information is employed as means of assessing the dietary role of foods from the forest and steppe among human groups since the Early Holocene, targeting specific periods represented in the bioarchaeological record.…”

Human Effects in Holocene Fire Dynamics of Central Western Patagonia (~44° S, Chile)

“…Other open-air and rockshelter sites in the upper CRV have yielded ages between 1500 and 400 cal years BP. These have been tested and radiocarbon dated, and as a whole they are indicative of a broad functional variability (Reyes et al, 2009) including both large and small open-air camps (e.g., Appeleg 1, Winchester 1), chenque-type burials (e.g., Pampa El Frío), and lithic workshops (e.g., La Cantera 1; Reyes et al, 2007b;Velásquez et al, 2007;Reyes and Méndez, 2010;Gómez and Méndez, 2015). Along with the larger overall extent of some of these sites when compared to cave sites, a much wider diversity of activities is suggested by larger lithic assemblages, higher frequency of formal tool types, evidence of grinding stone tools, and a more diverse selection of raw materials (Contreras et al, 2016).…”

“…Summed probability plots based on the averaged occupational events at El Chueco 1 site and at valley scale were used for comparing human occupations with fire-episode frequencies and magnitudes reconstructed from the Lake Shaman record (Figure 5). The following was observed from the fire-episode frequencies: (1) despite the availability of fuel, no fires were recorded prior to the onset of human presence in the CRV at 11,500 cal years BP; (2) from 10,500 to 8000 cal years BP, moderate fire frequencies occur, coinciding with redundant, lowintensity occupational events at El Chueco 1 site; (3) between 8000 and 7000 cal years BP, no fire episodes or absent to low fire-episode frequency were recorded, coinciding with no 14 Cbased occupations and a lack of human-made features, bone remains and artifact deposition at El Chueco 1; (4) at 7000 cal years BP fire episodes reappear at a moderate frequency alongside human signs at El Chueco 1 and other sites in the upper CRV; (5) high fire-episode frequencies were observed concomitant with the occurrence of multiple occupational events in the upper and middle CRV between 3000 and 2300 cal years BP (Méndez and Reyes, 2008;Méndez et al, 2016), and (6) high fire-episode frequencies were observed associated with higher intensity of occupations e.g., larger sites (Velásquez et al, 2007), higher artifact frequencies (Contreras et al, 2016), more site variability (Reyes et al, 2009) including local burials (Reyes and Méndez, 2010), and the use of local lithic resources (Gómez and Méndez, 2015) in the upper CRV between 1500 and 400 cal years BP.…”

Estudio de la distribución de estructuras de entierro en poblaciones cazadorasrecolectoras de la costa norte de Santa Cruz (Patagonia argentina)

“…El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo dar a conocer los resultados obtenidos de los análisis distribucionales de estructuras realizadas con rocas en un sector de la bahía del Oso Marino (Figura 1), en la costa norte de Santa Cruz (de ahora en adelante Leandro Zilio y Miguel A. Zubimendi Estudio de la distribución de estructuras de entierro... históricos (Goñi y Barrientos 2000;Goñi et al 2004;Guichón et al 2001;Prieto 1993-94;Reyes y Méndez 2010;entre otros). Tanto en la literatura arqueológica como en la referida a viajes y expediciones en Pampa y Patagonia, se ha destacado como un factor recurrente en la localización de este tipo de enterramientos el emplazamiento de los mismos en sectores elevados, sobre distintas formaciones geológicas con predominio de vistas panorámicas amplias.…”