Zooarchaeological data about a sea lion bone bead from Thetis Bay (Tierra del Fuego) is presented herein. They are the result of the activities carried out by a factory that exploited commercially colonies settled in the area during the 1940s.First field work on this bone accumulation pointed to present preliminary data on density, anatomical and taxonomic abundance, as well as taphonomic observations with the goal to discuss aspects related to site formation processes.Though the taxonomic composition can be considered almost monospecific and is interpreted that the most of these remains resulted from the tasks in the factory, the former indicators suggest the secondary nature of this record, which would have been accumulated by tides, transport in the discarded remains.
Keywords:
Pinnipes, Industrial Exploitation, Zooarchaeology, Tierra Del Fuego
Vázquez, M., & Santiago, F. (2015). Industrial exploitation of pinnipeds in tethis bay factory (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina): a zooarchaeological approach. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (29). Retrieved from https://revistahistoriaindigena.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/36219
