A scientific study raises the possibility that Spanish people They have not been the first to step on the Falkland IslandsTherefore, it puts the European vision in check. This is a hypothesis that would position the yagansa native people of the Tierra del Fuego area, many years before.
Since the British usurped the Falkland Islands in 1833, Argentina claimed its sovereign rights over the territory alleging that they were discovered by members of Magellan’s expedition in 1520, reason why they were included in the European cartographies. For this very reason, beyond the continental platform, the territory was inherited after the dissolution of the Viceroyalty.
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Darwin’s arrival in the Islands and the presence of the Yagans
Along with the British came Charles Darwin, the scientist behind the theory of evolution. Upon disembarking, he noticed the unusual presence of a single species of terrestrial mammal: Dusicyon australis. This animal resembles a fox and is known as the Malvinas wolf or “warrah”, which is unknown how it reached the South Atlantic territories.
Nevertheless, a study by US scientists found evidence of prehistoric human activity in the Falkland Islandslong before the Spanish and then the British usurpers arrived.
Among these data are: the presence of the warrah, the presence of fossil coal, a bone harpoon and the finding of an artifact that is compatible with a stone projectile on the north side of one of the Islands.
That study was published in the Science Magazine and ensures that “is consistent with the lithic technology used in Tierra del Fuego during the last 1000 years”, that is, typical of the members of the Yagan people.
The vision of the Conicet scientists
Once he became aware of these investigations, two scientists from the Conicet Atilio Francisco Zangrando and Luis Borrero took up this investigation and made their conclusions based on the data presented.
To avoid jumping to hasty conclusions, the researchers stated that there is still a lot of information to collect in order to confirm the presence of the Yagans in Malvinas.
In this regard, Zangrando does not allow: “EThese dense accumulations of sea lion bones mean that many people fed, and if many people were fed in the place, another type of activity must remain in the substratum, a record of the instruments used to process them, remove the skin, deposit it and so on. The artifacts and their debris will appear abandoned along with the bones.”
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In the same way, he recalled that “it must be taken into account that the sea lions were present in the Malvinas for many years, where they settled to carry out their clandestine activities, they devastated the sea lion colonies, removed the fat and left the carcasses of sea lions lying around”.
Far from ruling out a possibility, the archaeologist argued that this it opens the debate and also “possibilities in terms of claiming sovereignty over the Malvinas; in particular, considering that there is talk of native peoples who inhabited the country were occupied the sector before the arrival of the Europeans”.
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