ISBN 9780691058498 | 0691058490 Textbooks - "Patagonia Natural History Prehistory and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth Princeton Paperbacks" by McEwan Alfredo Colin Borrero Luis A Prieto

Authors: McEwan - Alfredo - Colin; Borrero - Luis A.; Prieto
ISBN 10: 0691058490
ISBN 13: 9780691058498
Format: Paperback (192 pages)
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Tags: Outdoors & Nature, Ecology,

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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 people the globe. Now they are extinct. This book tells their story.The book describes how these intrepid nomads confronted a hostile climate every bit as forbidding as iceage Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the Aonikenk (southern Tehuelche), Selk'nam (Ona), Yamana (Yahgan), and Kawashekar (Alacaluf), living, as the Europeans saw it, in a state of savagery. The first contacts led to tales of a race of giants and, ever since, Patagonia has exerted a special hold on the European imagination. Tragically, by the mid-twentieth century, the last remnants of the indigenous way of life had disappeared for ever. The essays in this volume trace a largely unwritten history of human adaptation, survival, and eventual extinction. Accompanied by 110 striking photographs, they are published to accompany a major exhibition on Fuego-Patagonia at the Museum of Mankind, London.

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Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Princeton Paperbacks)

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