Uso alimentario de recursos vegetales entre cazadores recolectores de Bahía Laredo, Cabo Negro (Magallanes)
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1991
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Se establece una primera aproximación en relación a la disponibilidad de recursos vegetales al alcance de los primitivos cazadores-recolectores en la zona de Cabo Negro (Magallanes, Chile), basada en una caracterización general de la vegetación, enfatizando presencia, distribución y abundancia de fanerógamas y hongos. La información arqueológica referida al área y la etnografía disponible proporcionaron información básica sobre el uso de estos recursos por los aborígenes australes de América, permitiendo el planteamiento de la hipótesis que el área de Cabo Negro y consecuentemente el istmo de Brunswick, debió representar una fuente abundante, variada y alternativa de alimentos para los aborígenes. Se espera que esa información contribuya a la estimación de la periodicidad estacional de ocupación del área por grupos de cazadores nómades como los aónikenk; a un mayor conocimiento de algunas de las características del proceso de adaptación del hombre patagónico primitivo a su ambiente y a la comprensión sobre el origen de algunas de sus tradiciones culturales relacionadas con su utilización de los recursos vegetales.
A first approximation in relation with the availability of plant resources for the early hunter- gatherers of the area of Cabo Negro (Magallanes, Chile), based on the general characterization of the vegetation, emphasizing presence, distribution and abundance of phanerdgams and fungii, is established. The archeological information on the area and the available ethnographic literature furnished basic information on the use of these resources by the southern aborigines of America, allowing to set forward the hypothesis that the Cabo Negro area, and consequently the Brunswick isthmus represented a rich, varied and alternative source of food. It is hoped that this information will contribute to the estimation of the seasonal periodicity of occupancy of the area by groups of nomadian hunthers as the Aónikenk; to a better knowledge of some of the characteristics of the adaptation process of early Patagonian man to his environment; and to the understanding of some of his cultural traditions related to the use of plant resources.
A first approximation in relation with the availability of plant resources for the early hunter- gatherers of the area of Cabo Negro (Magallanes, Chile), based on the general characterization of the vegetation, emphasizing presence, distribution and abundance of phanerdgams and fungii, is established. The archeological information on the area and the available ethnographic literature furnished basic information on the use of these resources by the southern aborigines of America, allowing to set forward the hypothesis that the Cabo Negro area, and consequently the Brunswick isthmus represented a rich, varied and alternative source of food. It is hoped that this information will contribute to the estimation of the seasonal periodicity of occupancy of the area by groups of nomadian hunthers as the Aónikenk; to a better knowledge of some of the characteristics of the adaptation process of early Patagonian man to his environment; and to the understanding of some of his cultural traditions related to the use of plant resources.
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Cabo Negro, Alimentación aborigen, Cazadores recolectores
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Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, Vol. 20, pp. 155-168, 1991.