Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory, And Ethnography At The Uttermost End Of The Earth (Princeton Legacy Library, 386)

Patagonia: Natural History, Prehistory, and Ethnography at the Uttermost End of the Earth (Princeton Legacy Library, 386)

Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1998""A gripping read and lavishly illustrated." - NatureSome 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 ice-age Europe as they penetrated and settled the wilds of Fuego-Patagonia. Much later, sixteenth-century European voyagers encountered their descendants: the A