Abstract
During the last years, the archaeological research of mortuary record on the Magellan- Fuegian Archipielago has increased. These studies showed that mortuary practices implied a great diversity of behaviors in connection with body treatment, burial placement, number of individuals or artifacts left by the mourners with the bodies. In this paper we focus on the analysis of a specifi c context, Shamakush burial, located on the northern coast of the Beagle Channel region. This site, dated on 620 ± 60 BP, exhibit the more elabo- rate and complex mortuary context due to the labor invested on the arrangement of the body and to the
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