[HN Gopher] Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire
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       Declared Extinct, the Yaghan Rise in the Land of Fire
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 41 points
       Date   : 2022-04-19 19:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | westcort wrote:
       | My key takeaways from this article:
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       | 1. An Indigenous community that's made Tierra del Fuego home for
       | thousands of years, the Yaghan, currently lives on Navarino
       | Island, Chile, and across the Beagle Channel (Onashaga in the
       | Yaghan language) in Ushuaia, Argentina
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       | 2. While the roughly 100 Yaghan alive today continue to assert
       | their place in the here and now, archaeologists are in pursuit of
       | a deeper and broader story of their ancestors who made the land
       | and sea their home since possibly as far back as the end of the
       | last ice age
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       | 3. Archaeologists spend weeks each summer excavating along the
       | Beagle Channel/Onashaga, searching for evidence of the thriving
       | communities that made Tierra del Fuego home for thousands of
       | years
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       | 4. The two oldest dates along the Beagle Channel--and the second-
       | and third-oldest dates for Tierra del Fuego as a whole--come from
       | the bottom of shell middens excavated during that 1998 dig, and
       | by Orquera and Francisco Zangrando between 2010 and 2013
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       | 5. Those two older dates are mystifying, though--where do they
       | fit into the story? What are the archaeologists missing?
       | Archaeologists contemplate evidence while keeping in mind that
       | they have no idea what they have not found
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       | 6. The story that captured the imaginations of Tivoli and
       | Francisco Zangrando was of an ancient people so well adapted to
       | their environment that they thrived for 6,000 years, until the
       | arrival of Europeans, relying on a simple toolkit and a stable
       | seafood diet
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       | 7. When did people adapt to a maritime lifestyle? What lured them
       | into the sea? The oldest sites along the Beagle Channel/Onashaga
       | were found at Imiwaia and Tunel
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       | 8. 5,000 years ago, they're still eating sea mammals but go big
       | on guanacos and seabirds, and in the last 1,000 years, they're
       | more into fish
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       | 9. Their creation stories tell them, over and over, nothing is
       | free on the land and sea, they have to work hard to live in
       | balance with the sacred world around them, and their reward is
       | not an afterlife, it's the unquantifiable, almost infinite
       | generations of life
        
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