INVESTIGADORES
SALEMME Monica Cira
artículos
Título:
The exploitation of Rheidae in Pampa and Patagonia (Argentina) as recorded by chroniclers, naturalists and voyagers
Autor/es:
SALEMME MONICA; FRONTINI, ROMINA
Revista:
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Editorial:
Elsevier
Referencias:
Lugar: New York; Año: 2011 vol. 30 p. 473 - 483
ISSN:
0278-4165
Resumen:
Documents from chroniclers, naturalists and voyagers that traveled across the Pampas and Patagonia 2424
(Argentina) between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries are analyzed with the aim of building mate- 2525
rial expectations about the profit of Rheidae used by the historical known natives. This corpus of data is 2626
treated as a heuristic tool in the study of local huntergatherers archaeological sites, since bones and 27huntergatherers archaeological sites, since bones and 27
eggshells of rheids are recorded in most of the Pampean and Patagonian archaeological contexts from 2828
early to late Holocene times. Although remains of specimens of this ostrich-like family conforms a small 2929
portion of the whole archaeofaunal assemblages, chroniclers narratives describe an intensive and pref- 3030
erential use of the ñandú (rheas) by the natives. The proposal considers that it is possible to use the eth- 3131
nohistorical record as a tool to generate material expectations by means of analogies, in the same way 3232
that the ethnographical, ethnoarchaeological and experimental studies are used. However, difficulties 3333
appear when applying the ethnohistorical information to the archaeological record, considering that 3434
those descriptions are involved in analytical categories related to the voyagers historical and social 3535
contexts. 3636