Nuevo registro de Canis lupus familiaris prehispánico en el humedal del Paraná inferior con evidencias de aserrado perimetral

ACOSTA, A; LOPONTE, D; BUC, NATACHA

BOLETIM DO MUSEU PARAENSE EMILIO GOELDI

MUSEU PARAENSE EMILIO GOELDI

Lugar: Pará; Año: 2021 vol. 16

0077-2232

This paper presents a new record from a pre-Hispanic dog recovered from one archaeological site of the Paraná wetland,dated on the Late Holocene: Cerro Lutz. The element identified as Canis lupus familiaris is a proximal femur with sawingmarks in the perimeter of the bone, which suggests that it was used for a technological purpose. Specific determinationwas made based on a morphometric study where femur bones of other pre-Columbian individuals from C. l. familiarisand other wild canid species (Cerdocyon thous, Dusicyon avus and Licalopex griseus) that inhabited the study area wereanalysed. This study suggests that the femur could belong to a medium-sized individual, similar to the first sample foundin Cerro Lutz and the one recovered in CH2D01-II archaeological site in Uruguay. From technological aspects, we knowthat this bone would have been discarded in the manufacturing process of an artifact, probably a hollowed point. For thestudy area, it is the first record of using a pre-Columbian dog as raw material.