| Sumario: | Archaeological excavations, most of them rescues, carried out between 2000 and 2007 at eight pre-Hispanic sites along the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego produced 11 human skeletons from burials of different types. This paper discusses burial type, distribution and post-depositional processes, as well as the paleopathologic, chronological and isotopic skeletal analyses that reveal dietary patterns. On a regional scale, these new bioanthropological data add to knowledge of an area of Tierra del Fuego that is in desperate need of further research. On a supra-regional scale, the results support previous interpretations of the biocultural diversity found in the human groups that inhabited southern Patagonia during the Holocene. Copyright © Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - UNCPBA - Argentina.
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