Submerged prehistory has emerged as a key topic within archaeology over the last decade. During this period the broader academic community has become aware of its potential for revolutionising our understanding of the past. With recent technological and scientific developments has come an opportunity to investigate larger areas and learn more than previously thought possible. When charting the future of the subject, however, it is also necessary to consider its historical trajectory. This sense of opportunity and optimism has been experienced before, but not sustained. As such, our greatest challenge lies not in adopting technological developments, but in maintaining momentum.
RESUMENEl presente trabajo propone una refl exión en torno a las prácticas de navegación interior en los ambientes boscosos de lagos subandinos del centro-sur de Chile. Se realiza una revisión crítica de los antecedentes disponibles para estas tecnologías de transporte, y en particular, de las canoas monóxilas indígenas, desde la arqueología, la etnohistoria y la etnografía. Se analizan las implicancias teóricas del uso de embarcaciones por parte de grupos Arcaicos y Alfareros continentales tomando como referencia antecedentes propuestos en estudios históricos y arqueológicos, y se discute sobre la importancia relativa y la profundidad temporal de estas prácticas en el área de los lagos araucanos.PALABRAS CLAVES: Tecnología, embarcaciones, movilidad, rutas acuáticas, bosques templados.
THOUGHTS ON THE USE OF LOGBOATS IN ANDEAN PRECORDILLERAN LAKE FOREST ENVIRONMENTS, CENTRAL-SOUTH CHILE ABSTRACTThis paper proposes some thoughts on the use of watercraft on interior waters within the precordilleran lake forest environments of central-south Chile. A critical revision of available information related to water transport and indigenous logboats in particular is conducted from an archaeological, ethnohistorical and ethnographical perspective. Theoretical implications regarding watercraft use by continental Archaic and Ceramic period populations according to archaeological and historical proposals are analyzed, and the relative importance and antiquity of these practices in the Araucanian Lake District is discussed.
Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1), located on the central coast of Chile, is the only documented Late Pleistocene drowned terrestrial site along the Pacific Coast of South America. Faunal evidence at the site is varied, and so far, remains of the following taxa have been found: extinct Camelidae, Cervidae, Equidae, Mylodontidae, Xenarthra, but also Myocastoridae, Canidae and Octodontidae. Both geological and paleoenvironmental data indicate that GNLQ1 developed in a floodplain or low-energy environment during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Prior to the post-glacial rising of the sea level, the site would have been located several kilometres inland as the paleoshoreline was farther out on the continental shelf. In accordance with this background, the present study addresses the analysis of the spatial distribution of the bone deposits of GNLQ1 by considering both scenarios, the terrestrial phase related to the formation and modification of the fossil assemblage prior to the transgression, and the marine phase, subsequent to inundation. Results indicate modifications related to low-energy flow environment and carnivore activity dominated during the terrestrial phase and the action of marine organisms during the marine phase. Other taphonomic modifications are not easily attributable to either one or the other environmental context.GNL Quintero S.A
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