Resumen

COLASURDO, María Belén; SANTIAGO, Fernando  y  SALEMME, Mónica. Guanacos, sex and age: The case of Las Vueltas 1 site (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina). Comechingonia [online]. 2012, vol.16, n.2, pp.139-153. ISSN 1851-0027.

Las Vueltas 1 site (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) has been characterized as a guanaco (Lama guanicoe) kill site, where guanacos were hunted and butchered; several hunting events left a total NISP of 3404 guanaco bones (being 1751 specimens from the 3rd. occupation); all the skeletal pieces are differentially represented. The main goal of this paper is to fi nd out sex and age of guanacos coming from the latest occupation in the site, considering that the sexual and aging structure of a zooarchaeological assemblage lights on the hunting strategies as well as if they were concentrated in a particular social, sexual or age group of animals, guanacos in this case. Odontometric analyses and osteometric measures in pelvis were used to identify sex and age of the guanacos from LV1; all mandible, maxilla and pelvis fragments coming from stratigraphic position were employed. The studied material, coming from the third occupation in the site, dates from the Late Holocene.

Palabras clave : Guanaco; Sexual and aging structure; Fuegian steppe.

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