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Chapter 3 - Resources: Prey, Plants, and Stones

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2024

Gustavo G. Politis
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Luis A. Borrero
Affiliation:
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Since cultivation was late and marginal and there were no domestic animals (except the dog) in the Pampas and Patagonia, indigenous people in both regions depended almost exclusively on wild animals, both terrestrial and aquatic, and undomesticated plants. At the same time, stones were also crucial for making the tools to kill and butcher the prey and to process the plant products. As we will show, bone technology was secondary in most of the Pampas and significant only among coastal, both maritime and riverine, and Paraná Delta people. Therefore, wild natural resources were the key elements for human subsistence in the Pampas and Patagonian and, in some way, shaped their adaptive patterns.

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Print publication year: 2024

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