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Chronicles of ‘Ona-Ashaga’: archaeology in the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego – Argentina)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ernesto Piana ,
Assumpció Vila ,
Luis Orquera  and
Jordi Estévez
Ernesto Piana
Affiliation:
Centro Austral de Investigaciones Cientificas. Avda. Malvinas Argentinas, Ushuaia, Argentina
Assumpció Vila
Affiliation:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, C/Egipciacas 15, 08001 Barcelone, Spain
Luis Orquera
Affiliation:
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas, Rivadavia. 1379, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jordi Estévez
Affiliation:
Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 252 , September 1992 , pp. 771 - 783
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We thank Mercedes Piana for the translation of the first part. Walking alone one evening through the forest along the old track, hearing the howls from the ‘lengas’ tree shaken by the wind, and after some days working in the site I felt unhappy. People were missing but still so close. I remembered the sensations produced by the tales in a book read many years ago in my adolescence. The title we choose here evokes it partially. (JE)

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