Perceptions and practices, an overall study of the hunter-gatherers from Patagonia Argentina and Plant Interaction

CIAMPAGNA MARÍA LAURA

Budapest

Congreso; 28 th Annual Meeting European Asociation Archaeologist; 2022

European Asociation of Archaeologist

The main aim of this this presentation is to elucidate the practices of gathering and postharvest processing wild plants that performed hunter-gatherers on the north coast of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina, in the late Holocene. An overall study of archeobotany remains, etnohistorical sources, ethnobotanical interviews and experimental replications were proposed. The methodological analyses are specific for each field. The analyses of plant macro and microremains recovered from various archaeological sites, pot fragments and grinding tools were made followingthese protocols (Capparelli et al. 2015a, Ciampagna et al. 2021, Mercader et al. 2017, Piqué et al. 2021). Etnohistorial sources from XVII to XIX centuries were performed behind a critical view. An ethnographic qualitative methodology with flexible design was adopted; and experimental studies were executed to reproduce the patterns which were inferred in the last sources. Due to the integrity of these results, categories like sensory perceptions and foodways are put in dialogue with field work, theory and reflexivity. This exercise would improve our analytical and theoretical toolsto look for native categories and comprehend the “ways of inhabiting” of these hunter-gatherer societies.