Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 45(special issue) 2002

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VOL 45(special issue) 2002

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South America, Tierra del Fuego, hunter-gatherer, archaeozoology, birds, processing marks

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Bird management in America's extreme south during the 19^th century

• Laura MAMELI

Abstract:

In this paper, bird bones from the Túnel VII (Tierra de Fuego, Argentina) archaeological site are presented and analysed. This site was successively occupied by bands of hunter-gatherers during the 19^th century. The author has analysed bird bones as material remains of human consumption. Traces and cut marks on bones are used as evidence for human processing and differential consumption. A quantitative study of bone remains is presented, stressing the differential representation of species, body parts, bones with processing evidence, and the location of discarded material. The archaeological analysis intends to show the existence of relevant changes in the way animal preys were selected and processed by human hunters through time in the extreme south of America.