Patagonia : : Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth / / ed. by Colin McEwan, Alfredo Prieto, Luis A. Borrero.
Some fourteen to ten thousand years ago, as ice-caps shrank and glaciers retreated, the first bands of hunter-gatherers began to colonize the continental extremity of South America--"the uttermost end of the earth." Their arrival marked the culmination of humankind's epic journey to p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (206 p.) :; 7 color photos 100 duotones 11 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by the Ambassadors of Argentina and Chile to the United Kingdom
- Introduction
- THE CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- KEY DATES AND EVENTS
- 1. The Natural Setting The Glacial and Post-Glacial Environmental History of Fuego-Patagonia
- 2. The Peopling of Patagonia The First Human Occupation
- 3. Middle to Late Holocene Adaptations in Patagonia
- 4. The Origins of Ethnographic Subsistence Patterns in Fuego-Patagonia
- 5. The Great Ceremonies of the Selk'nam and the Yamana
- 6. The Meeting of Two Cultures Indians and Colonists in the Magellan Region
- 7. The Patagonian 'Giants'
- 8. Travelling the Other Way Travel Narratives and Truth Claims
- 9. Tierra del Fuego - Land of Fire, Land of Mimicry
- 10. Patagonian Painted Cloaks
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- PICTURE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS