The social use of space in a shell midden: Testing ethnoarchaeological data from Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) with intra-site spatial analyses

The processes of formation of the Túnel VII site have been differentiated from the interpretation of refitting analysis and spatial distribution maps and the detailed analysis of zooarchaeological data. However, the results presented in this paper have to be contrasted with an integrated analysis of lithic and bone technology remains in order to analyse the overall distribution of by-products from production and consumption activities. Moreover, results concerning the structure of spatial data point to the need to test spatial interpolation methods designed to overcome the geostatistical restriction on the homogeneity of the surface.