El Sur del Sur: The first settlers (II)

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THE FIRST SETTLERS

Córdoba Caves.
Pictograph, detail.

Mountainous region

The oldest human traces found in mountains of the Argentine territory were discovered in Ayamapitín, Córdoba and Intihuasi, San Luis, and were around 8,000 years old.

In the so called "early" period, the oldest culture is located in Tafí (Tucumán), 2,500 years back in the past and the only things known about them are that they were made up by extended families and worked ceramics and stone.

In the "middle" period, the most important manifestation of the existence of a culture was found in La Aguada, a territory comprising the provinces of San Juan, La Rioja and Catamarca, between the years 650 and 800. The settlers engaged in corn growing, pottery and bronze works. In the "late" period, between the years 850 and 1480, the first demographic concentrations took place.

Zonda, San Juan.
Pictograph.

Santa Cruz.
Rupestrian Painting.

In the Patagonia

In the far south and the Fuegian channels the first men are assumed to have arrived 6,000 years ago. They inhabited circular, half-buried dwelling places and lived by hunting and fishing. They used boats and spears for the hunting of sea mammals and they gathered shell-fish.

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