Carina Llano- National University of Cuyo
Carina Llano
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Carina Llano currently works at National University of Cuyo. Carina does research in Ethnobotany, Ecology and Botany. Their current project is 'Human biogeography in a desert margin: mobility, information and trans-Andean interaction in northwestern Patagonia (Neuquén, Argentina) '.
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Las áreas naturales protegidas (ANPs) son un excelente escenario para las acciones de Educación Ambiental para la Biodiversidad (EAB). El objetivo fue analizar las redes de actores sociales que los guardaparques identifican como implicados en la EAB de las ANPs. Las relaciones que establecen con los actores y las propuestas de EAB que llevan a cabo...
This new project studies the diversity of socioecological niches across the agropastoral transition in the Andes, utilising a multi-isotope approach to track human territories and allocate subsistence tasks. During the agro-pastoral period, we discriminate different diachronic niches with varying extents of maize farming and altitud-inal mobility.
The bow and arrow is a crucial component of Homo sapiens’ material culture. In South America, data on the bow and arrow are widely scattered, which motived this comprehensive compilation of archaeological, ethnohistoric, and ethnographic information. For millennia prior to the bow’s first appearance, hunters relied on the spearthrower. In the Andes...
Se presentan los primeros resultados del análisis de ácidos grasos aplicados a residuos absorbidos en fragmentos cerámicos provenientes del noroeste de Mendoza. Los materiales bajo estudio fueron recuperados mediante excavaciones sistemáticas efectuadas en el sitio Agua de la Cueva norte, ubicado en las tierras altas de la Precordillera (32º37’ S 6...
Se presentan resultados de los análisis crono-estratigráficos y del material cerámico, lítico, arqueobotánico y zooarqueológico recuperado de un alero ubicado en la Cordillera Principal, sobre la traza del ramal transversal más meridional del Qhapaq Ñan. Este alero se emplaza en un área con características ambientales particulares que la hicieron u...
Se presenta un nuevo corpus de información arqueológica y cronológica producto de la excavación del sitio Cueva Yagui (norte del Neuquén, noroeste de Patagonia, Argentina), cuya secuencia ocupacional humana se inicia hace al menos 8.500 años calendáricos. Un análisis crono-estratigráfico preliminar permitió distinguir dos pulsos diacrónicos en su h...
El propósito del siguiente artículo es hacer un análisis teórico desde el paradigma de la extensión crítica sobre un proyecto en territorio de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo realizado entre 2016 y 2018, enmarcado en el tema de la educación ambiental dentro de las áreas naturales protegidas en la provincia de Mendoza, República Argentina. Se razona...
A new corpus of archaeological and chronological information is presented as a result of the excavation of Cueva Yagui site (northern Neuquén, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina), with an occupational sequence beginning at least at 8,500 calendar years ago. A preliminary chrono-stratigraphic analysis allowed to distinguish two diachronic pulses in t...
Resumen En el presente trabajo se analiza el aprovisionamiento de recursos vegetales implementado durante el Holoceno por los grupos móviles del norte del Neuquén (Patagonia). Se toma como caso de estudio al sitio Cueva Yagui, cuyas ocupaciones humanas fueron datadas entre los 8500 y 1800 años cal AP. Durante este lapso, el registro arqueológico re...
The relationship between nature and culture is conceived as a dialogue, not as a dichotomy. Sociocultural and ecological systems are linked, in which language encodes the foundations of collective knowledge in a way that is often untranslatable but inextricably links its speakers to their landscape and each other. We describe the social practices a...
En el presente trabajo se analiza el aprovisionamiento de recursos vegetales implementado durante el Holoceno por los grupos móviles del norte del Neuquén (Patagonia). Se toma como caso de estudio al sitio Cueva Yagui, cuyas ocupaciones humanas fueron datadas entre los 8500 y 1800 años cal AP. Durante este lapso, el registro arqueológico recuperado...
El objetivo de esta investigación versa sobre las representaciones sociales de los docentes rurales de Mendoza (Argentina) acerca de la incorporación de los saberes tradicionales de los estudiantes en la enseñanza sobre la biodiversidad y su conservación. El marco teórico se fundamenta en la idea de representaciones sociales y el gesto pedagógico....
The Andes are a unique geological and biogeographic feature of South America. From the perspective of human geography, this mountain range provides ready access to highly diverse altitudinally arranged ecosystems. The combination of a geologically and ecologically diverse landscape provides an exceptional context to explore the potential of stronti...
We present isotopic and morphometric evidence suggesting the migration of farmers in the southern Andes in the period AD 1270-1420, leading up to the Inka conquest occurring ~ AD 1400. This is based on the interdisciplinary study of human remains from archaeological cemeteries in the Andean Uspallata Valley (Argentina), located in the southern fron...
Sloths and ground sloths (Xenarthra: Tardigrada) are among the most conspicuous mammals in the Cenozoic faunas of South America. During the late Pleistocene and the early Holocene, all the megafaunal xenarthrans became extinct. While much attention has been paid to understanding the causes of megafauna extinction, less attention has been given to u...
En las últimas décadas los estudios sobre biodiversidad y conservación han ido en creciente aumento; no obstante, paradójicamente existen grandes lagunas de conocimiento sobre aspectos fundamentales relacionados a sus representaciones sociales. Realizamos una indagación sobre el conocimiento, valoración y actitudes hacia la fauna por parte de los a...
Material audiovisual que aborda el problema de la coexistencia de las personas con las especies nativas (puma, zorro) que depredan el ganado en el sur de Mendoza.
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In this paper we present the most recent archaeobotanical results for the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1, located in northern Neuquén Province (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina). The site has a discontinuous temporal sequence extending between the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and recent times. By integrating previous results, we aim to deve...
En el marco del proyecto SeCTYP de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo: “Educación ambiental para la sustentabilidad: relación entre diversidad biológica y cultural”, dirigido por Gabriela Diaz y Carina Llano, se lleva adelante este trabajo de investigación con el objetivo analizar cómo es el vínculo entre las distintas instituciones generadoras de con...
In this work we present the first systematic results about regional isotopic ecology in northern Neuquén Province (Argentina). This information is essential to reconstruct ecological changes and human paleodiets through time. We conducted analyses of stable isotopes of carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N) on the collagen fraction of bone from on...
Los macrorrestos vegetales recuperados en el sitio Los Conitos (noroeste de Mendoza, Argentina) proporcionan evidencia del consumo y manejo de especies de plantas silvestres y domésticas. Con base en estos datos, el objetivo de este trabajo es mejorar nuestra comprensión del proceso socioeconómico de recolección y manejo de especies de plantas dura...
Objectives: The goal of this paper is to assess the scale of human paleomobility and ecological complementarity between the lowlands and highlands in the southern Andes during the last 2300 years. By providing isotope results for human bone and teeth samples, we assess a hypothesis of ‘high residential mobility’ suggested on the basis of oxygen iso...
Test excavations were conducted at Risco de los Indios (RDLI), a site at 2480 masl with 29 residential features and a well-developed midden containing abundant floral, faunal, lithic, and ceramic materials. Analyses indicate the site was intensively used ca. 500 cal b.p. as a residential base for groups focused on hunting guanaco, supplemented by l...
Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos de campo en el sitio arqueológico Risco de los Indios, localizado en la cuenca alta del río Diamante a unos 2.400 m s.n.m. El sitio reúne un total de veintinueve estructuras habitacionales pircadas y fue fechado en ca. 500 años AP. Las características generales de Risco de los Indios sugieren que es un si...
This paper presents the results of feldwork at Risco de los Indios, an archaeological site situated at 2.400 m elevation in the upper Diamante River watershed. The site contains twenty nine stacked-rock residential structures and dates to ca. 500 cal BP. Recovered faunal and macrobotanical remains indicate the site focused mainly on hunting camelid...
Se discute a partir del análisis arqueobótanico del Alero Los Conitos, valle de Potrerillos, Mendoza, la variable explotación de plantas silvestres y domésticas durante el Holoceno tardío. A partir de la evaluación de cambios en la intensidad y frecuencia de restos botánicos se explora la pertinencia y precisión de distintas estrategias de intensif...
In this article zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical analysis of materials found in Palulo Cave site are presented. The site is located in a valley adjacent to the Atuel river in southern Mendoza Province. The materials were analyzed in response to questions pertinent to the region, such as a proposed process of intensification. Site formation pr...
In this paper, optimal foraging theory is used to interpret wild plant collecting behaviors using experimental data and remains recovered from eleven archaeological sites in the Argentine Andes. Using simple techniques believed to approximate those of traditional hunting and gathering societies, I collected and processed twelve plant species endemi...
RESUMEN En esta contribución se presenta el análisis zooarqueológico y arqueobotánico de los materiales hallados en el sitio Cueva Palulo, localizado en las márgenes de un arroyo tributario del río Atuel, en el sur de la pro-vincia de Mendoza. Los materiales fueron analizados considerando problemáticas de índole regional, como el proceso de intensi...
El norte de la provincia de Neuquén (Depto. Pehuenches, Argentina) es muy poco conocido a nivel arqueológico, a pesar de estar ubicado en una posición central en relación con distintos temas clave del poblamiento humano de Sudamérica, incluyendo la extinción de la megafauna y sus causas, el poblamiento humano inicial y la existencia de discontinuid...
Northern Neuquén Province (Pehuenches Dept., Argentina) is barely known from an archaeological perspective, though it is centrally placed in terms of several large-scale key issues in the peopling of South America: the extinction of the megafauna and its causes, early human presence, and the existence of archaeological discontinuities during the Mi...
During the colonial era, southern Mendoza, Argentina, functioned as a frontier where indigenous and Spanish-speaking people interacted. Contact caused major transformations to indigenous economic, social, and political organization. Archaeological analysis is fundamental to understanding the characteristics of local indigenous populations that rapi...
During the last several years, information from stable isotopes has been used to discuss the role of maize agriculture in prehistoric economies of southern Mendoza. Because maize is one of several sources of 13C enriched carbon, a full evaluation of prehistoric diets requires data on a range of potential C3 and C4 plant resources. In this paper, we...
The purpose of this paper is to discuss recent methodological advances in Argentinean archaeobotany
that incorporate the use of ethnobotany as an ethnoarchaeological tool for interpreting ancient food systems in South America. This is an integrative paper that takes into account both published and unpublished results. The role of ethnobotany is exa...
The carpological records of edible plant resources exploited within the last 4000 years were recovered from various archaeological sites located in different environmental zones, in southern Mendo-za, Argentina. This analysis was performed considering the local environmental heterogeneity and the Optimal Foraging Theory, to determine whether the re...
The carpological records of edible plant resources exploited within the last 4000 years were recovered
from various archaeological sites located in different environmental zones, in southern Mendoza,
Argentina. This analysis was performed considering the local environmental heterogeneity and the
Optimal Foraging Theory, to determine whether the rec...
The macroremains of the vegetation from one archaeological site, Las Taguas arq-18 (San Juan, Argentina) is analyzed in this work. The site is a cave located in a glacial valley and is located between strategic Argentinean-Chilean river slopes from the Andean range. The stratigraphic sequence of the site spans from the early to late Holocene. The o...
We present the analysis of plant remains recovered from the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1,
Neuquén Province, Argentina, which provides new insights on the timing of peopling, environment
exploitation and use of plant resources. The chronological sequence of the site extends from the Pleistocene-
Holocene transition to recent times. The archaeo...
Constraining the influence of different moisture sources across the flanks of mountain ranges is
important for understanding tectonic, geomorphic, and paleoclimate problems at geologic timescales, as
well as evaluating climate change and water resources on human time scales. The stable isotope compositions
of stream waters and precipitation are an...
Constraining the influence of different moisture sources across the flanks of mountain ranges is
important for understanding tectonic, geomorphic, and paleoclimate problems at geologic timescales, as
well as evaluating climate change and water resources on human time scales. The stable isotope compositions
of stream waters and precipitation are an...
We present the analysis of plant remains recovered from the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1, Neuquén Province, Argentina, which provides new insights on the timing of peopling, environment exploitation and use of plant resources. The chronological sequence of the site extends from the Pleistocene- Holocene transition to recent times. The archaeo...
Recibido 26 de julio 2011. Aceptado 2 de enero 2012 RESUMEN Los frutos de Prosopis spp. son una importante fuente de alimento tanto para los humanos como para los animales debido a su alto valor nutricional, cuyos componentes clave se encuentran distribuidos en el fruto. Mientras que los carbohidratos se presentan en el mesocarpo, las proteínas se...
Mesquite fruits Prosopis spp. are an important food resource for both humans and animals due to their high nutritional value, but key dietary components are unevenly distributed within the fruit. While carbohydrates occur in the soft, outer mesocarpo, proteins are found in the much harder seeds. This raises the potential for differences in processi...
This paper presents the results of taxonomic identification of the macroremains recovered from archaeological sites in the El Salado valley, Malargüe, Mendoza (Argentina), discussing aspects related to the origin of the samples and the use of the identified species by human populations. The macroremains were recovered from the sites of Gendarmería...
Desde los enfoques etnobotánico y paleoetnobotánico, el concepto de paisaje adquiere la dimensión de fenómeno biocultural en el sentido de que es un ambiente físico-cultural e históricamente determinado. El objetivo de este trabajo es dar cuenta de la construcción, el uso y la percepción de distintos paisajes culturales en Argentina por medio del a...
Archaeologists have become increasingly interested in understanding the conditions under which resource
intensification occurs. In the case of vegetal foods, the process often ends with the adoption of agriculture. In this article we explore wild plant resource intensification using archaeobotanical information from three sites located in the upper...
Archaeologists have become increasingly interested in understanding the conditions under which resource intensification occurs. In the case of vegetal foods, the process often ends with the adoption of agriculture. In this article we explore wild plant resource intensification using archaeobotanical information from three sites located in the upper...
In this paper we present the results of the analysis carried out with the materials from Gruta de El Manzano archaeological site, located beside Grande River, in Malargue, southern Mendoza province. Using the new information, we discuss the site function, changes trough time, and remark his importance for the northern Patagonia discussion. The last...
In this paper we present the results of the analysis carried out with the materials from Gruta de El Manzano archaeological site, located beside Grande River, in Malargüe, southern Mendoza province. Using the new information, we discuss the site function, changes trough time, and remark his importance for the northern Patagonia discussion. The last...
Economic return rates of wild plants in Southern Mendoza: Nutritional values, handling cost and archaeological interpretations. We conducted collecting and processing experiments for eight plant species endemic to southern Mendoza province in order to assess their utility as human food resources. Plants were collected and processed by simple techni...
In a number of areas around the world researchers have begun to use the isotopic values of subsistence resources as a means of determining diets of human populations. The objective of the present study is to classify the plant species present at distinct altitudes in southern Mendoza Province, Argentina, considering photosynthetic pathways in order...
The Archaeobotanical Record Of The Arroyo Malo-3 Site, Atuel Highland Valley, Mendoza, Argentina. This work presents the analysis of the plant remains obtained from the archaeological site of Arroyo Malo 3 (AMA-3) by means of sediment flotation. The purpose is to evaluate the formation process of the archaeobotanical record, explore the role of veg...
The present work supports the idea that the archaeological record constitutes a valid approach to understand the relationship between humans and environment. It not only constitutes a paleoecological record because of the recovery of biological evidences associated to human occupations but due to the fact that humans themselves are significant comp...
