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Ancient Hunting Strategies in Southern South America

  • Describes advances in strategies and tactics regarding prey procurement in Argentina
  • An overview of research in different locations, environments, species and social groups over a large period of time
  • State-of-the-art knowledge on the way in which human populations obtained their resources across time and space

Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
  2. Assessing Strategies for Coypu Hunting and Use in the Salado River Depression (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)

    • María Isabel González, Paula D. Escosteguy, Mónica C. Salemme, M. Magdalena Frère, Celeste Weitzel, Rodrigo Vecchi
    Pages 59-81
  3. Guanaco Hunting Strategies in the Southeastern Pampas During the Late Holocene

    • Cristian A. Kaufmann, María C. Álvarez, Pablo G. Messineo, María P. Barros, Mariano Bonomo, Guillermo Heider
    Pages 83-112
  4. The Introduction of the Bow and Arrow Across South America’s Southern Threshold Between Food-Producing Societies and Hunter-Gatherers

    • Silvina Castro, Lucía Yebra, Valeria Cortegoso, Erik Marsh, Agustín Castillo, Agustina Rughini et al.
    Pages 137-158
  5. Hunting, Butchering and Consumption of Rheidae in the South of South America: An Actualistic Study

    • Miguel Giardina, Clara Otaola, Fernando Franchetti
    Pages 159-174
  6. The Role of Small Prey in Human Populations of Northwest Patagonia and Its Implications

    • Diego D. Rindel, Florencia Gordón, Bruno Moscardi, S. Ivan Perez
    Pages 175-207
  7. Hunting Techniques Along the Rain Shadow Gradient in North-Central Patagonia, Argentina

    • Mariana Carballido Calatayud, Pablo Marcelo Fernández
    Pages 209-257
  8. Changes and Continuities of Hunting Practices from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene Among Nomadic Societies of the Patagonian Plateaus

    • Laura Miotti, Laura Marchionni, Darío Hermo, Enrique Terranova, Lucía Magnin, Virginia Lynch et al.
    Pages 259-291
  9. Technological Strategies and Guaranteed Return: Hunting Blinds and Patagonian Plateaus

    • Josefina Flores Coni, Juan Dellepiane, Gisela Cassiodoro, Rafael Goñi, Agustín Agnolin
    Pages 293-312
  10. Hunting Blinds in the Southern End of the Deseado Massif: Collective Hunting Strategies During the Late Holocene

    • Nora V. Franco, Lucas Vetrisano, Brenda L. Gilio, Natalia A. Cirigliano, Pablo E. Bianchi
    Pages 313-341
  11. Hunting Landscapes in the North Margin of Lake Viedma (Southern Patagonia, Argentina): Preys, Strategies and Technology

    • Juan Bautista Belardi, Flavia Carballo Marina, Gustavo Barrientos
    Pages 343-360
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 361-362

About this book

This book presents the state of the art for the studies of strategies and tactics for the procurement of preys in Argentina in different regions and chronologies (from the end of the Pleistocene until historic moments). The chapters are related to the performance of these practices in hunter-gatherer, shepherd and farmer societies. From the environmental point of view, they show cases in diverse areas such as plains, mountains, forests, sea coast, steppes and puna. Likewise, the range of preys considered includes ungulates (camelids and deer), runner birds (Rhea pennata) and minor prey (mammals and fish).

The book is aimed at professionals and students of archaeology interested in the analysis of tactics and strategies for prey capture. Every chapter offers an important contribution in theoretical, methodological and technical terms. In addition, these works possess a high comparative value on study cases of very different chronologies and environments of the Southern hemisphere.

This book is a result of the 1st Workshop "Strategies and tactics in order to obtain preys in the past: its discussion from the integration of different lines of evidence" which was conducted in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, between the 8th and 10th of August, 2018. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • CIT Santa Cruz, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos (UNPA-UARG), Rio Gallegos, Argentina

    Juan Bautista Belardi

  • Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL), CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Damián Leandro Bozzuto

  • Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Pablo Marcelo Fernández

  • Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia Catamarca (CITCA—CONICET/UNCA), Escuela de Arqueología, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca (UNCA), San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Argentina

    Enrique Alejandro Moreno

  • Departamento de Antropología, Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, Instituto de Evolución, Ecología Histórica y Ambiente (CONICET - Universidad Tecnológica Nacional-UTN), San Rafael, Argentina

    Gustavo Adolfo Neme

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ancient Hunting Strategies in Southern South America

  • Editors: Juan Bautista Belardi, Damián Leandro Bozzuto, Pablo Marcelo Fernández, Enrique Alejandro Moreno, Gustavo Adolfo Neme

  • Series Title: The Latin American Studies Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61187-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61186-6Published: 29 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61189-7Published: 29 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61187-3Published: 28 January 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-3421

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-343X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIV, 362

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 66 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Geography

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