Evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islands

2021/10/27 by Kit M. Hamley, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Kathryn E. Krasinski +6 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/sciadv.abh3803

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Abstract

remains further supports a potential mutualism with humans. The findings from our study are consistent with the culture of the Yaghan (Yámana) people from Tierra del Fuego. If people reached the Falkland Islands centuries before European colonization, this reopens the possibility of human introduction of the warrah.

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• History of the Falkland Islands [wikipedia]