Yendegaia Rockshelter, the First Rock Art Site on Tierra del Fuego Island and Social Interaction in Southern Patagonia (South America)

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dc.contributor.authorGallardo, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorCabello, Gloria
dc.contributor.authorSepulveda, Marcela
dc.contributor.authorBallester, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorFiore, Danae
dc.contributor.authorPrieto, Alfredo
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T20:21:22Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T20:21:22Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThrough our research at Bahia Yendegaia on the Beagle Channel in southernmost Patagonia-the ancestral territory of the Yagan people-we discovered the first rock art site on Tierra del Fuego Island. The geometric visual images found at Yendegaia Rockshelter present motifs and compositions analogous to those recorded at other sites on the southern archipelago associated with the marine hunter-gatherer tradition. They also show graphic similarities to the rock art paintings attributed to terrestrial hunter-gatherer populations from the Pali Aike volcanic field, located on the north side of the Strait of Magellan in mainland Patagonia. Both, however, display quantitative differences, which suggest that they emerged from different visual traditions but from the same field of graphic solutions. Navigational technology enabled the canoe-faring Fuegian people to have long-distance mobility and to maintain a flow of social information mediated via visual imagery expressed in material forms, such as rock art and expressions of portable art. Ethnohistoric reports suggest a cooperative social interaction more than a competitive one. This cooperative social dynamic would have been necessary for the survival of marine societies in the harsh environmental conditions characteristic of the southern part of south Patagonia.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/laq.2022.47
dc.identifier.eissn2325-5080
dc.identifier.issn1045-6635
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2022.47
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92625
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000824174900001
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final549
dc.pagina.inicio532
dc.revistaLatin american antiquity
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectrock painting
dc.subjectFuegian Archipelago
dc.subjectsouthern Patagonia
dc.subjectsocial interaction
dc.subjectinformation flows
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleYendegaia Rockshelter, the First Rock Art Site on Tierra del Fuego Island and Social Interaction in Southern Patagonia (South America)
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen34
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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