Tallando desde lo alto: Un sitio de explotación de materiales líticos de los grupos cazadores-recolectores de la isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

Abstract

This paper provides the initial results obtained from the analysis of a lithic workshop, named Altos del Varela I, located on the top of Petersen hill in Tierra del Fuego Island (Argentina). The site contains distinctive areas entirely composed of a high frequency of flakes made from local metamorphic rhyolite. These results open the debate about the use of mountain landscape between the fuegian hunter-gatherers as well as the interaction between coastal and inland groups.