Abstract

ZILIO, Leandro. HUMAN DYNAMICS ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF SANTA CRUZDURING THE LATE HOLOCENE: EVIDENCE FROM THE MORTUARYAND ISOTOPIC RECORD. Relaciones [online]. 2017, vol.42, n.2, pp.1-10. ISSN 0325-2221.

In this paper a model about human dynamics of hunter-gatherer groups who inhabited the northern coast of Santa Cruz during the late Holocene is presented, focused on approaches concerning to mobility and modes of use of space. We worked with distributional and temporal Information ofthe different modalities ofburial in the study area, as well as results ofdeterminations ofstable isotopes (8¹³Cand8¹⁵N). With this information, framedinpaleoenvironmentalbackground, it is proposed that for the initial late Holocene the spaces of the coast and the inland would have been occupied in a complementary way by small groups with high residential mobility. In contrast, from the end of late Holocene the coast-inland mobility, in occasions limited to the coast for longer stays, would have resulted in the concentration of human burials. For this period an occupational redundancy in certain sectors of coast and a reduction of residential mobility is proposed.

Keywords : mortuary practices - stable isotopes - mobility - hunter-gatherers - northern coast of Santa Cruz.

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