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9,700 Years of Maritime Subsistence on the Pacific: An Analysis by Means of Bioindicators in the North of Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Agustín Llagostera Martinez
Agustín Llagostera Martinez*
Affiliation:
Museo Regional, Universidad del Norte, Casilla 1280, Antofagasta, Chile
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Abstract

In this report, conclusive archaeological data are disclosed that demonstrate that about 10,000 B.P. there were in America groups of people able to exploit the sea with remarkable effectiveness. In addition, through the analysis of the biological indicators of three coastal archaeological sites of different chronology, the continuity and the diachronic development of the maritime adaptation in the north of Chile is shown.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 309 - 324
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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