GIS technologies and spatial organization patterns among hunter-gatherers: an archaeological case study from Southern Patagonia (southern South America)

  • María Cecilia Pallo Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (CONICET - IMHICIHU), Argentina
Keywords: spatial analysis, GIS, hunter-gatherers, Southern Patagonia, geographical organization.

Abstract

This paper discusses some aspects of hunter-gatherer spatial organization in southern South Patagonia, in later times to 10,000 cal yr BP. Various methods of spatial analysis, elaborated with a Geographic Information System (GIS) were applied to the distributional pattern of archaeological sites with radiocarbon dates. The shift in the distributional pattern of chronological information was assessed in conjunction with other lines of evidence within a biogeographic framework. Accordingly, the varying degrees of occupation and integration of coastal and interior spaces in human spatial organization are explained in association with the adaptive strategies hunter-gatherers have used over time. Both are part of the same human response to changes in risk and uncertainty variability in the region in terms of resource availability and environmental dynamics.

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Pallo M. C. (2015). GIS technologies and spatial organization patterns among hunter-gatherers: an archaeological case study from Southern Patagonia (southern South America). Complutum, 26(1), 71-90. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2015.v26.n1.49341
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