PERSONAL DE APOYO
PARMIGIANI Vanesa Esther
artículos
Título:
Bone awls and basketry: complementarity between ethnography and experimentation
Autor/es:
FRANCH BACH, ANNA; PARMIGIANI, VANESA; MANSUR, MARIA ESTELA; DE ANGELIS, HERNÁN; ALVAREZ SONCINI, MARIA CELINA
Revista:
Ethnoarchaeology
Editorial:
Taylor & Francis
Referencias:
Lugar: Londres; Año: 2023 vol. 1 p. 1 - 23
ISSN:
1944-2890
Resumen:
The use of rushes and awls for basketry is mentioned in the ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources for Tierra del Fuego (South America). Our research aimed to reproduce record and contrast the technical process of basketry and to see how bone awls are involved in it, according to hypotheses derived from the ethnographic data. For this study, a techno-functional approach was adopted that combines the ethnographic record, experimentation and microscopic functional analysis. The chaine opératoire was reproduced for basket making, and collection strategies and technical processes involved in rush processing were compared. Results confirmed the effectiveness of techniques described in the sources for the manufacture of baskets of Marsippospermum grandiflorum. Regarding bone awls, experiments confirmed their usefulness in basketry and functional analysis confirmed the formation of characteristic use-wear traces produced by this activity.
