Browsing by Author "Prieto, Alfredo"

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    Fuegian Firestone Quarry : Iron Pyrite on Capitán Aracena Island, Magallanes Archipelago, Southern Chile
    (2018) Gallardo Ibañez, Héctor Francisco; Ballester, Benjamín; Prieto, Alfredo; Sepúlveda, Marcela; Gibbons, Jaime; Gutiérrez, Sebastián; Cárcamo, José
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    HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN REY DON FELIPE (PORT FAMINE): 50 YEARS AFTER ORTIZ-TRONCOSO
    (2023) Urbina, Simon; Adan, Leonor; Sierralta, Simon; Cortes, Constanza; Prieto, Alfredo; Gonzalez, Soledad; Calas, Elisa; Labarca, Rafael; Massone, Mauricio; Naranjo, Natalia; De la Calle, Felipe; Roman, Alvaro
    This article presents new archaeological research at Rey Don Felipe (Port Famine), thus continuing the pioneering works by Omar Ortiz-Troncoso half a century ago. We first summarize the historical and archaeological knowledge about the colonial settlement, and then the new excavation carried out between 2019-2022 are described. Finally, we discuss the main results of the chronological, faunal and lithic studies as well as other significant cultural findings. Different interpretations regarding the relevance of the settlement, cultural materials and different occupations identified are evaluated. Progress is made regarding four principal occupational the potential of new analyzes and the emergence of novel perspectives to study colonial processes from an archaeological point of view.
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    Late Pleistocene subsistence and settlement during the initial human colonization of southern South America: Faunal evidence of Cueva Lago Sofía 1 and Tres Arroyos 1, southern Patagonia
    (2025) Labarca Encina, Rafael Osvaldo; Prieto, Alfredo; Massone, Mauricio
    Archeological findings in central and southern Patagonia indicate that highly mobile hunter-gatherers swiftly settled in the cold and treeless late-Pleistocene steppes as early as 13 000 cal a BP. In southern Patagonia, the faunal assemblages from these initial sites have helped clarify taxonomic issues, explore the timing of megafaunal extinction, and reconstruct the paleoecological dynamics involving extinct and extant taxa and humans. Nonetheless, essential aspects such as subsistence strategies and the mobility of these early inhabitants have been less thoroughly studied. This paper offers a detailed zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the faunal remains from late Pleistocene archeological sites Cueva Lago Sof & iacute;a 1 in the & Uacute;ltima Esperanza area and Tres Arroyos 1 rock shelter in northern Tierra del Fuego. We identified at least 17 taxa, including both extinct and living species; taphonomic evidence suggests that Canidae and Camelidae were the primary groups exploited. Extinct taxa probably served as supplementary resources. We propose that Cueva Lago Sof & iacute;a 1 functioned as a logistic camp for animal processing, while the faunal evidence from Tres Arroyos 1 aligns with a small base camp that was recurrently occupied. The results are compared with other contemporary sites in Patagonia and discussed in the context of human exploration models and spatial usage proposed for the region
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    Yendegaia Rockshelter, the First Rock Art Site on Tierra del Fuego Island and Social Interaction in Southern Patagonia (South America)
    (2023) Gallardo, Francisco; Cabello, Gloria; Sepulveda, Marcela; Ballester, Benjamin; Fiore, Danae; Prieto, Alfredo
    Through our research at Bahia Yendegaia on the Beagle Channel in southernmost Patagonia-the ancestral territory of the Yagan people-we discovered the first rock art site on Tierra del Fuego Island. The geometric visual images found at Yendegaia Rockshelter present motifs and compositions analogous to those recorded at other sites on the southern archipelago associated with the marine hunter-gatherer tradition. They also show graphic similarities to the rock art paintings attributed to terrestrial hunter-gatherer populations from the Pali Aike volcanic field, located on the north side of the Strait of Magellan in mainland Patagonia. Both, however, display quantitative differences, which suggest that they emerged from different visual traditions but from the same field of graphic solutions. Navigational technology enabled the canoe-faring Fuegian people to have long-distance mobility and to maintain a flow of social information mediated via visual imagery expressed in material forms, such as rock art and expressions of portable art. Ethnohistoric reports suggest a cooperative social interaction more than a competitive one. This cooperative social dynamic would have been necessary for the survival of marine societies in the harsh environmental conditions characteristic of the southern part of south Patagonia.