
Fernando FranchettiNational University of Cuyo | UNCUYO · Instituto de Arqueología y Etnología
Fernando Franchetti
Doctor of Philosophy
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Fernando Franchetti currently works at Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Fernando does research in Archaeology.
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August 2013 - August 2019
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This article examines the dietary patterns of herders in central-western Argentina, known as puesteros (local herders). We investigate how changes in land use, urbanization, and hunting restrictions have affected traditional puestero herding practices and the contributions of wild and domesticated animals to their diets. The study focuses on two re...
We propose an Ideal Specialization Model to help explain the diversity of population growth trajectories exhibited across archaeological regions over thousands of years. The model provides a general set of expectations useful for guiding empirical research, and we provide a concrete example by conducting a preliminary evaluation of three expectatio...
Resumen Los estudios distribucionales en el valle del Diamante, Mendoza, permitieron la comparación del uso del espacio entre zonas ecológicas, con robustos resultados en cordillera y piedemonte. Los análisis de densidades de materiales y organización lítica posibilitaron detectar canteras de basaltos, rocas criptocristalinas y otras rocas en ambas...
En este trabajo presentamos los resultados de la prueba piloto del muestreo sistemático en la cuenca distal del río Diamante, en su desembocadura en el sistema fluvial Desaguadero-Salado. Se analizan los distintos elementos del paisaje y su relación con la presencia de registro arqueológico. Se observan también las relaciones entre registro de prec...
Se presentan los resultados de la observación controlada de cáscaras de huevos de Rheidae y de una carcasa completa de Zaedyus pichiy depositadas en un corral de experimentación tafonómica. El objetivo de este trabajo es comparar el grado y velocidad de entierro y destrucción de ambos tipos de registros. En el caso del armadillo, analizamos las dif...
The obsidian dating method converts the quantity of diffused molecular water within a near-surface hydra-tion layer to elapsed time using an experimentally derived diffusion coefficient predicted from the structural water content of the glass. Infrared spectroscopic transmission measurements on transparent archaeological samples record vibrational...
The aim of this paper is to study the use of ceramics of small-scale societies during the late Holocene in northern Patagonia. The technological investment model predicts that use-time and utility will determine the investment spent in ceramics. We explore how ceramics were used in short-term camps and aggregation sites during summer at high elevat...
Our objective is to analyse the relationship among the availability, selection, and use of raw materials suitable for knapping with projectile points from the Late Holocene of northwestern Patagonia. We analyse differences in the raw material used to make projectile points according to the techno-morphological characteristics. Non-stemmed projectil...
In this paper, we focus on the results of the archaeological research in the Diamante Valley, the southernmost limit of the expansion of agriculture, sedentary societies, and the Inka empire (Fig. 1). We conducted the first fieldwork in this area involving random surface sampling, followed by test pits in open-air sites. Our analyses
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This paper explores the relationships between population change and human diet after the adoption of domesticated resources in northwest Mendoza, a subregion of central western Argentina (CWA). To estimate population, we used summed probability distributions of radiocarbon ages (RC-SPD). We used carbon and nitrogen stable isotope values (ẟ¹³Cco, ẟ¹...
This research discusses land use in three ecological zones from the Diamante Valley: the highlands, the piedmont, and the lowlands-while focusing on mobility and the lithic organization of prehistoric hunter-gatherers. To determine the differences in land use, the fieldwork for this research involved a systematic random sample of surface deposits f...
In this paper we explore obsidian conveyance in the Diamante Valley, in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Obsidian is the third most-common toolstone used in the Diamante Valley after basalts and local cryptocrystallines. Obsidian artifacts are predominantly projectile points and bifaces, with few cores and early-stage reduction debris. To explain...
The south of Mendoza province has been characterized as the southern frontier of South American pre-Hispanic agriculture on the eastern slope of the Andes. This characterization has been based on the presence of crops at the archaeological sites and adopting a dichotomic perception of hunter-gatherers and farmers. During the last few decades, the a...
In this paper we evaluate the role of human strategies in the Andean Piedmont from northern Patagonia across the Holocene. Specifically, we present the analysis of the Early Holocene-Late Holocene archaeological record of Salamanca cave (Mendoza-Argentina). We identified technological changes that occurred during the Late Holocene and the implicati...
Ethnographic studies and ethnohistoric literature from the south of South America showed strong interest in Rheas (Rhea americana and Rhea pennata) consumption. The Chronicles from numerous explorers of the nineteenth century mentioned different aspects of the exploitation of these birds by Native American people from South America, as well as by r...
In this paper we explore how changes in human strategies are differentially modulated by climate in a border area between hunter-gatherers and farmers. We analyze multiple proxies: radiocarbon summed probability distributions (SPDs), stable C and N isotopes, and zooarchaeological data from northwestern Patagonia. Based on these proxies, we discuss...
El registro arqueológico de cazadores-recolectores localizado en ambientes de altura ha sido ampliamente debatido en la literatura mundial. Las discusiones se han centrado en su funcionalidad, cronología, complementariedad con ambientes bajos y significado en los procesos de poblamiento de distintas regiones. Los Andes meridionales cuentan con un a...
This research focuses on land use and risk management by hunter-gatherers in the Diamante valley, northern Patagonia, Argentina, across three ecological zones: the Highlands, the Piedmont, and the Lowlands. I also explore how site structure differed within these ecological zones, how mobility was used to manage the heterogeneous distribution of res...
Northwest Patagonia was inhabited by hunter gatherers until historic times with evidence of “farming islands” in the north sector (mostly Diamante and Atuel River). Until recent times the human evolutionary trajectory had been focused in a coarse grained temporal resolution, using multi millennial units. This poster explores the archaeological reco...
This paper presents the archaeological record of La Olla site, located in the Atuel river valley (Mendoza, Argentina). Materials found and analyzed include lithics, ceramics, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and human remains. The paper attempts to adjust the state of knowledge of the pre-Hispanic agricultural dispersal using new information. Tw...
In this paper, the distribution of ceramic data from archaeological sites in three different biogeographic areas from Southern Mendoza (Argentina) is compared. The aim is to discuss the relationship between this technology and resources distribution in Southern Mendoza.
Form and function has been a common topic of study in ceramic analysis, mostly in agricultural studies, and used as a heuristic tool to interpret fragmentary remains (Rice 1987). In hunter-gatherers, Eerkens (2012) has proposed some expectations for measures and possible uses in trade pots. Beck (2009) has also proposed a relation between mobile an...
Este capítulo presenta una síntesis de los trabajos e investigaciones que se realizaron sobre tecnología cerámica en el sur de la provincia de Mendoza. La intención fundamental es orientar a los interesados en la temática ofreciendo, por una parte, la síntesis en sí misma, y señalando, por otra, potenciales problemas y líneas de investigación en ma...
The aim of this work is to improve the understanding of human mobility in southern Mendoza, exploring aspects related to ceramic technology. The sensitivity of different technological variables is evaluated by monitoring variation in mobility strategies. Using the data from quantitative submacroscopic analysis of the ceramic material, patterns and...
The purpose or this paper is to analyse four ceramic assemblage sets and discuss the relationship between ceramic investment, environment and strategies of mobility among Late Holocene hunter-gatherers in southern Mendoza. The analysed assemblages come from the areas of Llancanelo, Atuel Medio, Rio Grande, and surface materials from Volcán Overo. D...
El sitio arqueológico Los Colorados se encuentra ubicado en el sector centro sur de la provincia de Catamarca (Argentina). Específicamente sus coordenadas geográficas son 27° 37’ 40’’ S y 67° 16’ 19’’ W ubicándose sobre las laderas y piedemontes del Cordón de Los Colorados. Según los estudios llevados adelante desde el año 2003 por nuestro equipo d...
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...