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A LA ADMIRABLE MARÍA VICTORIA CASTRO ROJAS, IN MEMORIAM
Calogero M. Santoro, Isabel Cartajena, Daniela Valenzuela y Vivien G. Standen
Aquí estamos.... como es posible estar a estas alturas... en estas alturas de La Reina. Mensaje de Vicky Castro Rojas, desde su casa de La Reina en Santiago, noche del martes 14 de junio, 2022.
PRÁCTICAS DE APROVISIONAMIENTO DE MATERIAS PRIMAS ALFARERAS EN LOS PERIODOS ALFAREROS EN CHILE CENTRAL. LO QUE REVELAN LOS ANÁLISIS POR ACTIVACIÓN NEUTRÓNICA
Fernanda Falabella, Lorena Sanhueza, Itaci Correa, Brandy L. MacDonald y Michael D. Glascock
At the beginning of the second millennium, there were profound aesthetic and technological transformations in Central Chile which have been extensively highlighted in the archaeological literature. In this work, we report on neutron activation analyses of ceramic materials from sites in the Angostura de Paine region, southern Santiago basin, to explore whether people from the Late Intermediate Period (PIT) continued to exploit the same raw material sources for culinary pottery as those of the Early Ceramic Period (PAT) despite the well-known cultural changes. The resulting chemical groups show that potters from the PIT continued to use the same raw material sources as in the previous period, although some compositional groups, with very few cases each, are exclusive of the PAT or the PIT. Our results also show that the use of these raw materials had a spatial logic, since the different sources were related to domestic sites nearby. The continuity in raw material sources supports the idea of social and historical links between potters from both periods, implying that knowledge was transmitted synchronically and/or diachronically and that it was people from the PAT that were responsible for the transformations that characterize the passage from one period to the next.
MAPEO DIGITAL DE UN PAISAJE AGRÍCOLA DEL PERIODO TARDÍO (1000-600 AP) (ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA, CATAMARCA, ARGENTINA)
María Cecilia Gentile, Pablo Tchilinguirian y Daniel Olivera
Around 1000 BP, the populations that lived in Antofagasta de la Sierra (South Puna, Catamarca, Argentina) had to face rising environmental aridity together with a demographic increase. As a response to hostile weather conditions, an intensification of agricultural activities began to take place. One of the sites that was built as a result of this process was Bajo del Coypar I, which comprises over 240 ha of archaeological cultivation plots. Studying this site in the field would have resulted in particularly high expenses and complexity. This is the reason why we chose to analyze its structure using high resolution images through the use of a Geographical Information System. Such a methodology allowed us to gather data on the site’s structure while generating new information on its compositional elements. This information relates to current debates on the area’s socio-political organization during the Late Period (1000-600 BP).
EL YANSO Y DE LA FLECHA (GUANDACOL, PROVINCIA DE LA RIOJA): OCUPACIONES HUMANAS EN EL CONTEXTO MERIDIONAL DEL NOROESTE ARGENTINO
M. Lourdes Iniesta, Sebastián Carosio, Vanina Terraza, Mariángeles Borgo y Roberto Bárcena
In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of new archaeological evidence from El Yanso and de La Flecha quebradas (Guandacol, southwestern La Rioja province, Argentina). Our aim is to identify local social processes by analyzing the spatial dimension and diversity of the archaeological record in an area with no preceding research to date, and to infer the role of this area in the frame of human occupations in the Guandacol valley as well as the meridional sector of Northwest Argentina. To achieve this, we conducted intensive surveys, surface sampling and excavations. In addition, we determined morpho-stylistic pottery groups and examined rock art to establish chronological distinctions. The results reveal settlement patterns and material evidence that would suggest the Formative Period and support regional spatial models up to the historical-colonial Period.
ESTANDARIZACIÓN DE CATEGORÍAS TEMPORALES UTILIZADAS EN LA ARQUEOLOGÍA DEL CENTRO DE ARGENTINA EN LOS ÚLTIMOS 140 AÑOS. NUEVOS USOS DE VIEJOS DATOS
Andrés D. Izeta y Luis Humberto Aguilar
One dimension that defines archaeological practice is time, which is used as an input to test changes and continuities in the lives of past individuals and populations. Over the last 140 years, the central region of Argentina (Córdoba and San Luis provinces) has seen the construction of numerous chronological schemes, the purpose of which have been to systematize the cultural and time models of the region’s inhabitants. This has resulted in an extensive corpus of heterogeneous period definitions, different extensions, and nomenclatures. Some of these have been associated with geological and historical events, others with material culture used as “fossil indices”, and an even smaller number with absolute radiocarbon dating. Here, we present the first results of the systematization and normalization of these temporal categories. The results allowed us to construct a database, following the model of the PeriodO project, in which each category was assigned a name, start date, another end date and the author of each definition. This is intended to provide a reliable systematization that allows for the use of ancient and modern data integrated into databases of archaeological sites or objects defined from different classification systems.
