Pilar Babot

Pilar Babot
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) & National University of Tucuman (UNT)

PhD

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Additional affiliations
August 2008 - September 2022
National University of Tucuman
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
May 2006 - present
National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Position
  • Independent Researcher
Education
March 2000 - June 2004
National University of Tucuman
Field of study
  • Archaeology

Publications

Publications (78)
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Social circumstances of the use of fire and firewood in past Andean societies are assessed through the anthracological, architectural and contextual analysis of a ritual burning in a foundational event of the agropastoralist societies from the Argentine Puna, at the southernmost part of the high desert of South Central Andes, ca. 1500 B.P. Ethnoarc...
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During the Formative period by the Late-Holocene (ca. 3000–1500 BP), semi-sedentary and sedentary human occupations had emerged in the oases, salares, and riverine systems in the central depression (2400–1000 masl) of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (19–25°S). This hyperarid core was marginally occupied during the post-Pleistocene and middle Hol...
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Se presenta el primer análisis composicional, morfológico y contextual de objetos metálicos de la Puna Meridional Argentina (1430-2070 aP) para contribuir al conocimiento de la metalurgia centro-surandina del cobre, desde un espacio marginal a los principales centros relacionados con esta tecnología. Mediante MEB-EDS se identifican cobres sin alear...
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This paper is part of an ongoing project started in 2019. Its main goal is to carry out a geoarchaeological analysis of rockshelters and shallow caves located in different regions and geological contexts of Argentina. This particular contribution attempts to shed light on the preservation processes of organic materials in such contexts. It is known...
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En el marco de la tendencia global hacia la accesibilidad de las bases de datos, reseñamos los protocolos diseñados para la confección del muestrario y la colección histológica utilizados en el estudio arqueobotánico del patrimonio culinario Centro-Surandino, así como su sistematización y puesta a disposición digital. El herbario etnoarqueológico,...
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Resumen Este trabajo forma parte de un proyecto cuyo objetivo principal consiste en realizar un análisis geoarqueológico de aleros y cuevas someras ubicados en diferentes regiones y contextos geológicos de la Argentina, con el fin de evaluar patrones y pe-culiaridades en el desarrollo de sus morfologías y estratigrafías. Dichos sitios constituyen a...
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A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00892-3.
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All crops are the product of a domestication process that started less than 12,000 years ago from one or more wild populations1,2. Farmers selected desirable phenotypic traits (such as improved energy accumulation, palatability of seeds and reduced natural shattering³) while leading domesticated populations through several more or less gradual demo...
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Junto a la historia y la antropología, la arqueología contemporánea ha sido testigo y partícipe de la maduración y el crecimiento del campo de la alimentación antigua como un concepto amplio (Montecino Aguirre 2012). A esto han contribuido un número de experiencias que se enfocan en diversas facetas del tema y lo hacen desde distintas líneas analít...
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This article concerns the technological and archaeobotanical analysis of nine lithic assemblages from monumental sites in the Maranga Archaeological Complex (Central Coast, Peru), dated between about 1800 and 400 yr BP. This period of occupation corresponds mainly to the development of Lima and Ychsma complex societies that were prior to and contem...
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El presente trabajo analiza la viabilidad metodológica de la aplicación de categorías propias de la ergonomía francesa en el análisis tecno-funcional de nueve conjuntos líticos del Complejo Arqueológico Maranga (Costa Central peruana), adscritos a períodos tardíos (ca. 1.800-400 AP). Desde un enfoque que considera a los útiles siempre en acción, se...
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Los estudios arqueológicos de artefactos líticos tallados y manufacturados o modificados por picado y abrasión, alcanzaron un grado de desarrollo tal en Argentina que, desde distintas perspectivas, han llevado a un interés creciente por la combinación de distintos tipos de análisis para una mejor comprensión de la gestión de las materias primas y d...
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En este trabajo se exponen los parámetros y una serie de consideraciones sobre lo que se denomina perspectiva integral en el análisis de artefactos líticos, que implica un estudio situado o situacional (y coyuntural) de sus historias de vida mediante una complementariedad de líneas carentes de relación jerárquica que se interpelan y dialogan entre...
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Miles de años de historia… Entre vegas, peñas y quebradas en Antofagasta de la Sierra constituye un relato sobre la vida en la antigua Puna centrado en uno de los enclaves icónicos de este desierto de altura en territorio argentino, que se basa en más de tres décadas de estudios arqueológicos. El libro nos invita a transitar por los paisajes antofa...
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All crops are the product of a domestication process that started less than 12,000 years ago from one or more wild populations. Farmers selected desirable phenotypic traits, such as improved energy accumulation, palatability of seeds or reduced natural shattering, while leading domesticated populations through several more or less gradual demograph...
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El libro ofrece un panorama integral y actualizado de las diferentes estrategias de subsistencia y prácticas alimentarias de las sociedades indígenas que ocuparon los distintos entornos naturales del continente americano desde fines del Pleistoceno, hace más de 14 mil años. Busca, por un lado, construir saberes disciplinares acerca de la subsistenc...
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A 1 MV AMS system will be installed at the Instituto de Datación y Arqueometría (INDyA), located in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. have acquired an AMS system developed by HVEE that will be used to measure 14 C, 10 Be and 26 Al. The system comprises a Tandetron accelerator with 1 MV terminal voltage capability and features two analyzing magnets...
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En este trabajo se analiza el estado del arte del conocimiento sobre los usos pasados y presentes de las gramíneas en el desierto de altura puneño. A partir de ello se establece la pertinencia de explorar la utilización de estas plantas mediante el estudio de microfósiles. Se presentan los primeros resultados obtenidos en relación a la caracterizac...
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History and environment shape crop biodiversity, particularly in areas with vulnerable human communities and ecosystems. Tracing crop biodiversity over time helps understand how rural societies cope with anthropogenic or climatic changes. Exceptionally well preserved ancient DNA of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) from the cold and arid Andes of...
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Section A. ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE DESCRIPTION Table A. Succinct chronology of climatic and social changes in the Southern dry Andes. Section B. SEED SAMPLE DESCRIPTION Table B. Seed sample description. Section C. DNA EXTRACTION, SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT GENOTYPING, ANCIENT DNA QUALITY CONTROL, AND POPULATION GENETIC ANALYSIS Table C. Microsatellite loci...
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SEED SAMPLE ALLELIC PROFILES (ReadMe). S1–File-WINKEL-et-al-Allelic-profiles-ReadMe. (PDF)
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SEED SAMPLE ALLELIC PROFILES. (Dataset). S2–File-WINKEL-et-al-Allelic-profiles-Dataset-(2018-04-05). (CSV)
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En la Puna desértica, el agua y las vegas son particularmente importantes para la vida. La historia de la gente del Río Las Pitas (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca) y los cambios en su vega ribereña, registrados a través de estudios sedimentológicos, edafológicos y de diatomeas en las terrazas fluviales (Grana et al. 2016), son ilustrativas de c...
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In this work, we analyze zooarchaeological data from deposits inferred as intentional burials of objects (in pits and as discrete accumulations). These burials are related to events that took place around a central structure in the agro-pastoralist residential site of Punta de la Peña 9 (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca province, Argentinian Sou...
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Se presentaron dos herramientas metodológicas para estudiar el continuo morfológico en fitolitos de Poaceae. Estas son: 1)registro de fragmentos de tejido silicificado de fitolitos articulados pluricelulares, compuesto por células de un mismo origen anatómico, que pueden ser asignadas a diferentes morfotipos fitolíticos de acuerdo a las clasificaci...
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History and environment shape crop biodiversity, particularly in areas with vulnerable human communities and ecosystems. Tracing crop biodiversity over time helps understand how rural societies cope with anthropogenic or climatic changes. Exceptionally well preserved ancient DNA of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) from the cold and arid Andes of...
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In this article, we develop the content and scope of the notion of transition to food production (TFP) and use it to understand the transition from hunter-gatherers to agro-pastoralist societies in Antofagasta de la Sierra, in the southern Puna of Argentina. We particulary focus on, issues related to culinary practices, the settlement / emplacement...
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En este trabajo se analizan las asociaciones de diferentes clases de microfósiles entrampados en el cálculo dental de individuos relativamente contemporáneos, datados entre ca. 390 y 320 años AP que fueron inhumados en el sitio Chenque I (Área Pampeana, Argentina), con el fin de efectuar una aproximación a los usos de las plantas practicados por es...
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The purpose of this paper is to visit the various approaches developed on dimpled stones, or large rocky substrates with holes, which have been known as fixed mortars in the Argentine Northwest, from the traditional perspectives of the pioneers of the national archeology, at the late nineteenth century, to subsequent studies carried out around the...
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This paper presents the results of an XRF analysis on the provenience of 118 obsidian artifacts from archaeological sites of the Antofagasta de la Sierra basin (Catamarca Province Argentina) dating to the late Middle and Late Holocene (c.4500–1100 BP). The time span considered encompasses a local process of gradual transformation from hunter-gather...
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To broaden the definition of the Smoking Complex proposed for La Granja site (Cachapoal river valley, VIth Region, Central Chile, 130-1000 AD) we have studied the microfossils contained in 62 smoking pipes. Our aim is to determine what elements were consumed and how they are associated to the knowledge and selection of the intended effects. Differe...
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Wild cereals have been harvested all over the world by hunter-gatherer with evidences as much in South America as in Australia, North America and Subsaharian Africa. In some places there are still used for human consumption. The goal of this paper is to document phytoliths in inflorescence axis, and in kernels/inflorescences/bracts of several native...
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A partir del auge de la producción de quinua en los Andes se observa un creciente interés en evaluar el impacto de la intensificación de su cultivo. Muchos son los análisis y comentarios, a menudo alertando sobre dinámicas poco sustentables, y en particular, sobre la pérdida de biodiversidad. A pesar del interés para contextualizar mejor los cambio...
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Estudios recientes han dado cuenta del consumo de recursos domesticados tales como maíz y poroto, y posiblemente mandioca, en sitios arqueológicos prehispánicos tardíos y de contacto con el europeo del Delta del Paraná (Bonomo et al. 2011; Sánchez et al. 2013). En este trabajo se exponen los resultados preliminares del consumo de plantas cultivadas...
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We present comparative material for the identification of culinary residues of cooked tubers of Solanum sp., Oxalis tuberosa and Ullucus tuberosus. We use a broad concept of taphonomy that includes the study of plant modifications resulting from the preparation of food, in this case the boiling and cooking al rescoldo of fresh tubers. We undertake...
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RESUMEN En este trabajo se efectúa una propuesta metodológica para el estudio de la selección y abastecimiento de materiales líticos para la manufactura de artefactos de molienda en sus fases de campo y laboratorio. Se plantea un esquema para establecer bases de recursos líticos específicas para estos artefactos y se proporciona una discusión críti...
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Discoidal stones are extraordinary objects forming part of some lithic assemblages assigned to the final Pleistocene/early Holocene. In this paper we introduce a decorated discoidal stone recovered along with other pecked and ground stone tools from Cerro El Sombrero Cima (Tandilia, Buenos Aires, Argentina). Apart from its description, the results...
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This paper discusses the life history of the large knives / sidescrapers, objects which are recurrently found in Argentine Northwest agropastoral contexts, from detailed study of a set of pieces from Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca). The definition of their identity as agricultural specialized tools lets discuss the role of farming practices am...
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This paper presents, for the first time, a detailed study, from an archaeological perspective, of the morphological characteristics of the starch grains within the kernels of selected native wild grasses found in the Central Pampas of Argentina. We compared native wild grasses to maize starch grains, which can be distinguished from each other based...
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Lithic artifacts that belong to hunter-gatherer occupations from the Quebrada Seca 3 site during the Middle Holocene of the Southern Puna of Argentina, dating to ca. 4800–5900 cal BP are analyzed. These tools have been defined as stemmed projectile points whose blades were intensively maintained, resulting in asymmetric shapes. However, they have a...
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Recibido 29 de mayo 2012. Aceptado 29 de octubre 2012 RESUMEN Entre los conjuntos líticos del Cono Sur asignados a los grupos del Pleistoceno final/Holoceno temprano, las piedras discoidales resultan objetos excepcionales. En este trabajo se presenta una piedra discoidal decorada en el contexto de un conjunto de piezas confeccionadas por picado y a...
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We reflect on the concept of food tradition, with its components of continuity and change, and its application to the study of the distant past. We propose to address recipes and “cookbooks” within the study of food paths, from a broad not essentialist perspective, as a way to approach cooking practices in archaeology. Finally, to illustrate these...
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Current knowledge on useful plants in hunter-gatherers from Northwestern Argentina is discussed, and the study of processing tools is proposed as a way to fill the lacking of information that macrobotanical remains could not cover. Microfossils in use-residues from hunter-gatherers grinding stone tools recovered at Antofagasta de la Sierra, Souther...
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Current knowledge on useful plants in hunter-gatherers from Northwestern Argentina is discussed, and the study of processing tools is proposed as a way to fill the lacking of information that macrobotanical remains could not cover. Microfossils in use-residues from hunter-gatherers grinding stone tools recovered at Antofagasta de la Sierra, Souther...
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RESUMEN En este trabajo se efectúa una propuesta metodológica para el estudio de la selección y abastecimiento de materiales líticos para la manufactura de artefactos de molienda en sus fases de campo y laboratorio. Se plantea un esquema para establecer bases de recursos líticos específicas para estos artefactos y se proporciona una discusión críti...
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An agropastoralist burial within Structure 1 of Punta de la Peña 9 site, Sector I, from Antofagasta de la Sierra, Southern Argentinean Puna is analyzed. The burial is studied from a dynamic point of view, one that enables the exploration of several natural and cultural processes -both deliberate and random- that shaped the context. A multidisciplin...
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FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION DYNAMICS OF A DESERT BURIAL FROM ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA, SOUTHERN ARGENTINEAN PUNA. An agropastoralist burial within Structure 1 of Punta de la Pena 9 site, Sector I, from Antofagasta de la Sierra, Southern Argentinean Puna is analyzed. The burial is studied from a dynamic point of view, one that enables the explorati...
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This work explores the trajectories of plant resources in Northwestern Argentina by means of material evidences of food processing, artefact production and psicoactive consumption. Evidences of useful plants from different archaeological sites located at Puna, Prepuna and Valliserrana areas, between ca. 6500-400 years BP., are analyzed. Every case...
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This work explores the trajectories of plant resources in Northwestern Argentina by means of material evidences of food processing, artefact production and psicoactive consumption. Evidences of useful plant from different archaeological sites located at Puna, Prepuna and Valliserrana areas, between ca. 6500-400 years BP., are analyzed. Every one of...
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Current criteria used for the characterization of Phaseolus vulgaris and its varieties have not promoted the taxonomic identification of archaeological specimens, because they focused on rarely preserved characteres. This work analyzes variations within a broader set of cualitative and cuantitative characters of Phaseolus vulgaris, both macroscopic...
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Current criteria used for the characterization of Phaseolus vulgaris and its varieties have not promoted the taxonomic identification of archaeological specimens, because they focused on rarely preserved characteres. This work analyzes variations within a broader set of cualitative and cuantitative characters of Phaseolus vulgaris, both macroscopic...
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Se analizan las evidencias arqueológicas provistas por la Estructura 3, sector I, del sitio Punta de la peña 9 en Antofagasta de la Sierra(Catamarca). Se describen tres momentos de ocupación por parte de los grupos agropastoriles, los cuales marcan pautas diferentes de uso del espacio intramuros para un lapso acotado que comienza ca.1400 años AP y,...
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Se efectúa una caracterización de la molienda en Antofagasta de la Sierra, Puna Meridional argentina, desde sus primeras manifestaciones hacia ca. 6500 años AP hasta el momento agropastoril más tardío. Para el análisis del cambio tecnológico se emplean los conceptos de eficiencia e intensidad de uso de los artefactos. Como resultado se establecen t...