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The Tehuelche people is a collective name for some native tribes of Patagonia and the southern pampas region in Argentina and Chile. ''Tehuelche'' is a Mapudungun word meaning "Fierce People". They were also called Patagons, thought to mean “big feet”, by Spanish explorers, who found large footprints made by the tribes on the Patagonian beaches.〔(Pre-Hispanic Chile Pre Hispanic people of Chile ) http://www.thisischile.cl retrieved November 29〕 These large footprints were actually made by the guanaco leather boots that the Tehuelche used to cover their feet. It is possible that the stories of the early European explorers about the Patagones, a race of giants in South America, are based on the Tehuelche, because the Tehuelche were typically tall, taller than the average European of the time. According to the , 4,300 Tehuelche lived in the provinces of Chubut and Santa Cruz, and an additional 1,637 in other parts of Argentina. There are now no Tehuelche tribes living in Chile, though some Tehuelche were assimilated into Mapuche groups over the years.〔(Southern Chilean native peoples ) www.icarito.cl August 28, 2010, Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (Conadi) retrieved November 29, 2013〕 ==History== The Tehuelche people have a history of over 14,500 years in the region, based on archeological findings.〔Chiti, Jorge Fernández (1997) | see Monte Verde archaeological site near Puerto Montt. ''Cerámica indígena arqueológica argentina''. Condorhuasi, p. 64. ISBN 950-43-8095-6. 〕 Their pre-Columbian history is divided in three main stages: a stage with highly-sized rock tools, a stage where the use of ''bolas'' prevailed over the peaked projectiles, and a third one of highly complex rock tools, each one with a specific purpose.〔Bernal, 18-20〕 The nomadic lifestyle of Tehuelches left scarce archeological evidence of their past.〔Bernal, p. 17〕 They were hunter-gatherers living as nomads. During the winters they lived in the lowlands, catching fish and shellfish. During the spring they migrated to the central highlands of Patagonia and the Andes Mountains, where they spent the summer and early fall, and hunted game. Although they developed no original pottery, they are well known for their cave paintings.,〔〔(Arte Rupestre ) Atlas vivo〕〔(Ancient rock art -Living Atlas Chile ) Video (English subtitles) Tehuelche rock paintings, retrieved November 28, 2010〕 The Spanish arrived in the early 16th century. On March 31, 1520, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan landed and made contact with the Tehuelche people. The Spanish never colonized their lands, with the exception of some coastal settlements and a few missions. It took more than 300 years before the Argentine government occupied the southern Patagonia. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tehuelche people」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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