"Chaco (tribe)" redirects here. For the people of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, see Chaco Culture National Historical Park § Ancestral Puebloans.
Gran Chaco people
Area of the Gran Chaco
Total population
300,000 (est. 2010)
Regions with significant populations
Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay
Languages
See text
Religion
traditional tribal religion, Catholicism, Protestantism, atheism
The indigenous Gran Chaco people consist of approximately thirty-five tribal groups in the Gran Chaco of South America. Because, like the Great Plains of North America, the terrain lent itself to a nomadic lifestyle, there is little to no archaeological evidence of their prehistoric occupation. Contributing to this near-absence of archaeological data is the lack of suitable raw material for stone tools or permanent construction and soil conditions that are not conducive to the preservation of organic material.[1][2]
^Combes, Villar & Lowrey 2009, p. 71
^Calandra, Horacio Adolfo; Salceda, Susana Alicia (2008). "Cambio y continuidad en el Gran Chaco: De las historias étnicas a la prehistoria". In Braunstein, José; Meichtry, Norma C. (eds.). Liderazgo, representatividad y control social en el Gran Chaco. Corrientes, Argentina: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. pp. 31–38 [32–33]. ISBN 978-950-656-116-1.
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