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RESUMEN Las puntas cola de pescado (PCP, también llamadas Fell o Bird I) son objetos característicos de la cultura material de las ocupaciones de la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno en Sudamérica. Pese a la amplia escala espacial, sólo hay dos sitios arqueológicos que se destacan por la presencia de más de un centenar de PCP, con un elevado índice d...
El objetivo de esta presentación es lograr un acercamiento a las diferentes formas en las que los animales fueron incorporados a áreas de actividad humana. Para eso realizamos una revisión de crónicas de viajeros que visitaron Patagonia continental en los siglos XVIII a XX. Llevamos a cabo un registro de dichos escritos focalizando en las menciones...
El presente trabajo forma parte del programa de estudios actualísticos que estamos desarrollando en el marco de nuestras investigaciones arqueológicas en el NE del Macizo del Deseado (Santa Cruz, Argentina). Tiene por objetivo identificar los distintos agentes y procesos tafonómicos que actúan modificando los restos óseos depositados en las distint...
La localidad arqueológica Laguna Azul (LA) registra numerosas estructuras de piedra con morfologías variables y fechados del Holoceno Tardío (ca. 1906 ± 26 BP y 1756 ± 28 años AP). La presencia de gran cantidad de puntas de proyectil en las mismas con diferentes etapas de manufactura y diseño, nos ha llevado a generar interrogantes en cuantos a los...
La localidad arqueológica Laguna Azul (LA) registra numerosas estructuras de piedra con morfologías variables y fechados del Holoceno Tardío (ca. 1906 ± 26 y 1756 ± 28 años AP). La presencia de gran cantidad de puntas de proyectil en las mismas con diferentes etapas de manufactura y diseño, nos ha llevado a generar interrogantes en cuanto a los ras...
The archaeological locality of Piedra Museo, in the central portion of southern Patagonia, constitutes a main reference for the study of the peopling of the Americas, centered in the last region of the American continent to be colonized by humans toward the end of the final phase of the Pleistocene. The hunter-gatherers reached there about 13,000 c...
In this chapter, the lithic assemblages from SU 4/5 and SU 6 found in the AEP-1 site (in the Piedra Museo archaeological locality) were evaluated to identify design elements of these early technologies. We observed that in the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene assemblages, some technological and morphological characteristics are recurrent. These char...
In this paper, we seek to understand the variabilility in the technology of Fishtail points (FTPs). For this purpose, we consider three questions as a starting point: (a) How were FTPs made? (b) What were FTPs made for? and (c) Who made them? To answer these questions we analyze a sample from several archaeological sites in Argentinean Patagonia. W...
The Deseado Massif (Santa Cruz, Argentina) is a region with an abundant and diverse archaeological record. The recurrent occupations throughout the Pleistocene / Holocene transition have allowed detailed studies of the material culture of the first human groups who arrived at this region. Despite different lines of evidence are commonly investigate...
El uso del modelado 3D en el contexto patrimonial es una tendencia que se viene desarrollando en la arqueología a nivel local e internacional, y que ha servido para la documentación, preservación, análisis y difusión de diferentes materiales, manifestaciones rupestres así como en el trabajo de campo. En este estudio se exponen los alcances y limita...
The research developed from different lines of evidence in the central plateau of Santa Cruz and the Somuncurá plateau of Río Negro, provides information for approaching the hunting strategies carried out by hunter-gatherer societies who inhabited these massifs in the past. The information about both regions results from the analysis of archaeofaun...
Within the framework of a Regional Taphonomy project in the Deseado Massif (Argentine Patagonia), in a previous work we conducted systematic surveys through transects with the aim of evaluating some of the agents and processes that act on the modern bone record in different environmental units (plateaus, canyons and lagoon edges). These surveys wer...
RESUMEN El objetivo de este estudio es evaluar la variabilidad δ 13 C y δ 15 N de la megafauna y la gran fauna extinta que habitaron en el sur de Patagonia durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno. Se presentan valores de δ 13 C y δ 15 N en muestras de colágeno óseo de Hippidion saldiasi, Mylodontidae, Lama gracilis y Lama guanicoe del sitio AEP-...
Los conjuntos líticos del Macizo del Deseado correspondientes a la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno temprano han sido caracterizados por la presencia de artefactos unifaciales, elaborados sobre lascas grandes, generalmente espesas y formatizados mediante retoque marginal. Estas características tecnológicas fueron registradas en diferentes contextos...
This paper presents the first advances made in the framework of the actualistic taphonomy project that we recently started in the northeast of the Central Plateau of Santa Cruz, Patagonia Argentina. The main goal of this project is to strengthen, through this line of study, the archaeological interpretations of the área. Here we present the results...
La costa occidental del río de La Plata y su área de influencia ha sido de interés arqueológico desde los comienzos de los abordajes sistemáticos en el país. Sin embargo, estos esfuerzos han sido discontinuos a lo largo del tiempo tal como se evidencia en los hiatos de información en la literatura arqueológica. Después de dos décadas de ausencia de...
RESUMEN En este trabajo presentamos las prospecciones arqueológicas realizadas en la cuenca del Zanjón Del Pescado (noreste de la provincia de Santa Cruz). Este sector es reconocido en la arqueología de Patagonia desde inicios del siglo XX, principalmente porque la secuencia arqueológica de Los Toldos es una de las más completas de Patagonia. No ob...
Lithic production strategies involve choices linked to the procurement and processing of rocks. These strategies respond to social and environmental variables which can be studied through the artifacts. This paper analyzes the Cueva Maripe site, located in the Central plateau of Santa Cruz (Argentina) in which occupations were recorded from ca. 950...
El Parque Nacional Bosques Petrificados de Jaramillo (PNBPJ) es un área protegida localizada en un sector del Macizo del Deseado que fue originalmente creada para resguardar importantes yacimientos paleontológicos, principalmente bosques de araucarias petrificadas de edad Jurásica. En este trabajo se presentan tanto los fundamentos empíricos como l...
Los estudios de paisaje en arqueología cuentan ya con varias décadas de desarrollo en las que se generaron aportes de diferentes campos que nutrieron lo que denominamos arqueologías del paisaje. Durante el XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Argentina, en 2016, tuvo lugar el simposio “Del paisaje natural al paisaje humanizado: prácticas, cultura m...
En este artículo se presentan los primeros resultados obtenidos a partir de la experimentación de pisoteo sobre fragmentos vítreos. La experiencia permitió conformar una muestra experimental con el objeto de determinar y analizar los rastros que esta actividad genera sobre los filos y discriminarlos de aquellos atributos producidos por la factura h...
Libro de resúmenes de los trabajos presentados en el TALLER II: Problemas, interrogantes y soluciones en el estudio de la tecnología lítica, realizado el 9 de junio de 2017 en el marco del CICLO DE TALLERESDE LA DIVISIÓN ARQUEOLOGÍAMUSEO DE LA PLATA, FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS NATURALES Y MUSEO.
Blade technology has been recovered at several archaeological sites in Patagonia, mainly in Middle and Late-Holocene contexts. Many authors define this technology as ways of raw materials exploitation with the purpose of optlmlzatlon. However, blade production and use often involves other decislons beyond the availablllty of raw materials in a part...
Los estudios que se encuentran enmarcados dentro de la
denominada arqueología de contrato, específicamente los referidos a estudios
de impacto ambiental, han revisto en los últimos años una fuente importante de
información sobre las características del patrimonio arqueológico de diferentes
regiones de la República Argentina. En este contexto, los r...
Simposio Del paisaje natural al paisaje humanizado: prácticas, cultura material y lugares
Coordinadores Darío Hermo (CONICET, FCNyM ‐ UNLP. Argentina) Marcélia Marques (UECE. Brasil) Relatora Laura Miotti (CONICET, FCNyM – UNLP. Argentina)
Fundamentación
En Arqueología, el concepto de paisaje es utilizado desde diferentes posiciones teóricas,...
Simposio Del paisaje natural al paisaje humanizado: prácticas, cultura material y lugares.
Fundamentación: En Arqueología, el concepto de paisaje es utilizado desde diferentes posiciones teóricas, aunque con el común denominador de ser entendido como estructurador e integrador de las relaciones entre los seres humanos y sus entornos físicos y socia...
In this paper we address rock procurement among hunter-gatherers societies from Somuncurá plateau through the study of cores and quarries. Different analyses allowed us to infer the possible trajectories of the main raw materials recognized in the Talagapa stream basin: chalcedony, brown chert and obsidian. The raw materials and cores distribution...
VARIABILITY AND DISTRIBUTION OF SOURCES OF LITHIC RAW MATERIALS IN THE DESEADO MASSIF (SANTA CRUZ, ARGENTINA). In this article we complement the research on raw materials sources developed at La Primavera locality, Deseado Massiff (Santa Cruz, Argentina). In this sector, a wide proportion of its surface corresponds to geologic formations of volcani...
We present a series of reflections on the exploration of and the time for learning about new environments during the initial colonization of America. We consider theoretical elements from archaeology and other fields of study, in order to frame the processes that human groups face when migrating and adapting to uninhabited territory. These landscap...
This paper presents a review related to using microwear analysis to identify hafting process in archaeological contexts and also presents actualistic and archaeological information of hafting traces. In this way, the case of mid-Holocene (7500-3000 BP ca. years) end-scrapers from Maripe Cave site (Santa Cruz Province, Argentina) provides abundant e...
We present the technological analysis performed of a fishtail points assemblage registered in archaeological sites located around the De Las Vacas Lagoon, in Somuncurá Plateau (Río Negro Province, Argentina). We compare raw materials use and some technological attributes of these artifacts. Finally we discuss the analyzed variables in relation with...
We present the technological analysis performed of a fishtail points assemblage registered in archaeological sites located around the De Las Vacas Lagoon, in Somuncurá Plateau (Río Negro Province, Argentina). We compare raw materials use and some technological attributes of these artifacts. Finally we discuss the analyzed variables in relation with...
This paper discusses provisioning strategies of lithic raw materials at Maripe Cave site (province of Santa Cruz, Argentina). The archaeological sequence represents different moments of human occupation at the cave and in the study area, which show different lithic technologies. The morpho-typological analysis of the lithic cores recovered contribu...
This paper presents the finding of discoidal stones from Amigo Oeste archaeological site on the Somuncura plateau (Rio Negro, Argentina). This class of artefact has been reported from other early sites in the Southern Cone of South America, in some cases associated with fishtail points. The discoidal stones from Somuncura show technological and mor...
Determining the use of different archaeological tools has been a principal goal of archaeologists
since the beginning of our discipline. In Argentina, especially in Patagonia, microscopic lithic
analysis was launched in 1983 by the innovative work of Mansur, who focused on applying
this methodology to artifacts from early contexts (Cardich et al...
In the Deseado Massif there are many stratified archaeological sites located in caves and rockshelters. The cultural sequences, proposed in the past century, include an occupational hiatus and cultural changes that were developed on the basis of large tools from archaeological sites, without debitage analysis. The aim of this paper is to review the...
The Fishtail projectile point (FTPP) is one of the main technological proxies used to identify early human occupations in the Americas. These artifacts have a wide but discontinuous archaeological distribution. Several specimens have been recently recovered in the Somuncurá Plateau (Río Negro Province, Argentina), particularly at the Amigo Oeste (A...
There are numerous ethnographic and functional works that associate scrapers to the hide working, but few have focused on describing the usefulness of these instruments from its manipulation through the use of haft. In this paper we describe the results achieved during testing hafted scrapers, to determine the characteristics of a particular type o...
There are numerous ethnographic and functional works that associate scrapers to the hide working, but few have focused on describing the usefulness of these instruments from its manipulation through the use of haft. In this paper we describe the results achieved during testing hafted scrapers, to determine the characteristics of a particular type o...
Rocks As Symbols: The Selection Of Raw Material For Projectile Points In Patagonian Plateau Environments. Analyses of hunter-gatherer lithic technologies from Argentinean Patagonia have been developed from ecological-economic perspectives, leaving aside the social and symbolic aspects that impacted technological organization. Considering the analys...
Discussion of the presence of bifacial tools in the archaeological contexts of the Middle Holocene from Central Plateau, Santa Cruz province, is already more than half a century old. In this paper, we intend to contribute to this discussion through the techno morphological analysis of the lithic debris from the upper component of AEP-1 site, Piedra...
