The Landscape and Mobility of Hunter-Gatherer Societies - Archaeological Distributions in the Central Plateau of Santa Cruz, Argentina

This book provides a quantitative characterisation of the distribution of archaeological evidence at the La Primavera locality in Argentina, shedding light on ancient Patagonian societies by taking a multidimensional landscape-based approach. It also establishes a technical foundation for the replication of its methodology in other regions, and for studying other mobile hunter-gatherer societies.
 

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Study area.- Chapter 3. Antecedents in archaeology.- Chapter 4. Theory.- Chapter 5. Methodology.- Chapter 6. Results .- Chapter 7. Exploratory locational analysis.- Chapter 8. Settling chronology.- Chapter 9. Conclusions.- Chapter 10. Recent advances and perspectives.- Appendix.

Summary

This book provides a quantitative characterisation of the distribution of archaeological evidence at the La Primavera locality in Argentina, shedding light on ancient Patagonian societies by taking a multidimensional landscape-based approach. It also establishes a technical foundation for the replication of its methodology in other regions, and for studying other mobile hunter-gatherer societies.
 

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Angélica Magnin, Lucía Angélica Magnin
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.01.2026
• EAN: 9783032081261
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3208126-1
• No. of pages: 445
• Illustrations: XX, 445 p. 246 illus., 188 illus. in color. With online files/update.
• Series: The Latin American Studies Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Paläontologie, Kulturwissenschaften, Süd- und Zentralamerika (inklusive Mexiko), Lateinamerika, Geographische Informationssysteme (GIS) und Fernerkundung, Geographie, paleontology, Archaeology, Geographical Information System, Latin American Culture, Landscape Archaeology, Integrated Geography, spatial analysis, Site Formation Processes, Landscape Enculturation, Settlement Pattern