THE PREHISTORIC SETTLEMENT OF THE MALVINAS ISLANDS, ARGENTINIAN REPUBLIC

Abstract

Abstract

A general consensus about the Malvinas Islands was that its first human settlement occurred at the end of the 18^th Century, when people of European origin settled there; in the second half of the following century, some Fuegian Yaghan from southern Tierra del Fuego were transitorily translated to the archipelago by Anglican missionaries. Nevertheless, during the last decades some papers postulate sporadic or transitory occupations of Fuegian people before the arrival of Europeans. However, if the power of conviction is low or non-existent, a possible event not necessarily is probable; a hypothesis should no automatically be considered proven without unequivocal empirical evidence to corroborate it. Therefore, in this article we say that the previously accepted way about the beginning of the human settlement of Tierra del Fuego is still the most valid.