Ofrendar y propiciar. Fauna y prácticas agropastoriles prehispánicas del segundo milenio AP en Antofagasta de la Sierra, Puna meridional argentina

URQUIZA, S.V. Y M. DEL P. BABOT

Archaeofauna, International Journal of Archaeozoology

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Lugar: Madrid; Año: 2018 vol. 27 p. 209 - 232

1132-6891

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 Southern Puna) during the second millennium BP (ca. 1516-929 years cal. BP). To elucidate this issue a characterization of the vertebrate and invertebrate faunal remains from an anatomical, taxonomic and taphonomic point of view, is carried out. The analysis of these elements, recurrences and absences and indicators of seasonality, in addition to the presence of other objects within the deposits, their structuring and chronology relative to the history of use of the central structure, are interpreted in the light of traditions of the South-Central Andes. This allows us to propose the occurrence of foundational events and instances of rites associated with the dry season within the south Andean agro-pastoralist cycles.