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In this book, Gustavo G. Politis and Luis A. Borrero explore the archaeology and ethnography of the indigenous people who inhabited Argentina's Pampas and the Patagonia region from the end of the Pleistocene until the 20th century. Offering a history of the nomadic foragers living in the harsh habitats of the South America's Southern Cone, they provide detailed account of human adaptations to a range of environmental and social conditions. The authors show how the region's earliest inhabitants interacted with now-extinct animals as they explored and settled the vast open prairies and steppes of the region until they occupied most of its available habitats. They also trace technological advances, including the development of pottery, the use of bows and arrows, and horticulture. Making new research and data available for the first time, Politis and Borrero's volume demonstrates how geographical variation in the Southern Cone generated diverse adaptation strategies.

Prehistoric peoples --- Indians of South America --- Indigenous people --- Indigenous people of South America --- Excavations (Archaeology)

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"Perspectivism is an archaeological approach that distinguishes recurrent characteristics found in Amerindian mythology. This book explores the foundations of perspectivism and its theoretical and methodological possibilities. It demonstrates applications of its precepts through case studies of ancient societies of the Andes and Patagonia"--

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indians of South America --- Ethnoscience --- Ethnophilosophy --- Archaeology --- Methodology. --- Philosophy. --- Ambato Valley (Argentina) --- Antiquities.

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"This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanities perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories"--

Rubber --- Indians of South America --- Traditional ecological knowledge. --- History. --- Material culture.

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"Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals - terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead - was central to the region's transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Drawing on evidence from archives and digital repositories, John Soluri traces the circulation of furs and fibers to explore how the power of fashion stretched far beyond Europe's houses of haute couture to entangle the fates of Indigenous hunters, migrant workers, and textile manufacturers with those of fur seals, guanacos, and sheep at the 'end of the world.' From the nineteenth-century rise of commercial hunting to twentieth-century sheep ranching to contemporary conservation-based tourism, Soluri's narrative explains how struggles for control over the production of commodities and the reproduction of animals drove the social and environmental changes that tied Patagonia to global markets, empires, and wildlife conservation movements. By exposing seams in national territories and global markets knit together by force, this book provides perspectives and analyses vital for understanding contemporary conflicts over mass consumption, the conservation of biodiversity, and struggles for environmental justice in Patagonia and beyond"--

Animal industry --- Animal industry --- Animal industry --- Animal industry --- Animal populations --- Indians of South America --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies. --- Environmental aspects. --- History --- History --- Political aspects. --- History --- Violence against --- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) --- Patagonia (Argentina and Chile) --- Commerce --- History --- Commerce --- History