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Cultures > South > Paleo-Indian Hunters of South Central Chile

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These groups developed a broad-based subsistence strategy that was adapted to the rainforest environment. In addition to hunting the so-called megafauna, they used spears and bolas to capture smaller prey. But the bulk of their time was spent gathering fruit, nuts, seeds, wild potatoes and medicinal plants (notably boldo, peumus boldus), as well as freshwater mollusks.