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Human Predation and Natural History of Huemul (Cervidae; Hippocamelus bisulcus Molina) in Patagonia: A Zooarchaeological Analysis

dc.creatorFernández, Pablo Marcelo
dc.creatorCruz, Isabel
dc.creatorBelardi, Juan Bautista
dc.creatorde Nigris, Mariana Eleonor
dc.creatorMuñoz, Andres Sebastian
dc.date2015-10
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/97552
dc.identifierFernández, Pablo Marcelo; Cruz, Isabel; Belardi, Juan Bautista; de Nigris, Mariana Eleonor; Muñoz, Andres Sebastian; Human Predation and Natural History of Huemul (Cervidae; Hippocamelus bisulcus Molina) in Patagonia: A Zooarchaeological Analysis; Society of Ethnobiology; Journal of Ethnobiology; 35; 3; 10-2015; 472-498
dc.identifier0278-0771
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dc.descriptionWe use published zooarchaeological evidence to discuss the various hypotheses concerning the past distribution of huemuls in Patagonia, southern South America. We then use these data to evaluate the interactions between this cervid and hunter-gatherers during the Holocene. The zooarchaeological record shows that huemul mainly inhabited forested and forest-steppe ecotonal environments during the Holocene. Huemul were hunted in exceptional circumstances during the early occupation of Patagonia. Its presence in the zooarchaeological record of South Patagonia increases after 9500 BP and is more frequent after 2200 BP. However, the taxonomic contribution of the species' bone remains to the archaeological record is always low. The few assemblages where there are a high number of huemul bones would have been the result of opportunistic hunting episodes. This in turn suggests that hunting of huemul had little or no influence on the animal's regional distribution over time. However, the progressively greater human presence in some forested areas towards the end of the Holocene could have affected huemul populations at the local scale. The zooarchaeological information presented in this paper illustrates interspecific and long-term relationships and, hence, could serve as essential information in future management strategies for huemul in Argentina and Chile.
dc.descriptionFil: Fernández, Pablo Marcelo. Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación. Dirección Nacional de Cultura y Museos. Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Cruz, Isabel. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Río Gallegos; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Belardi, Juan Bautista. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral. Unidad Académica Río Gallegos; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: de Nigris, Mariana Eleonor. Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación. Dirección Nacional de Cultura y Museos. Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.descriptionFil: Muñoz, Andres Sebastian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Córdoba. Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba; Argentina
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSociety of Ethnobiology
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.2993/etbi-35-03-472-498.1
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dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subjectCHOROLOGY
dc.subjectCONSERVATION BIOLOGY
dc.subjectHIPPOCAMELUS BISULCUS
dc.subjectPATAGONIA
dc.subjectZOOARCHAEOLOGY
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
dc.subjecthttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.titleHuman Predation and Natural History of Huemul (Cervidae; Hippocamelus bisulcus Molina) in Patagonia: A Zooarchaeological Analysis
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