Bone Tools at the Late Prehispanic Site Boyo Paso 2 (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)

M. MEDINA; PASTOR, S.

Documenta Praehistorica

Ljubljana University Press

Lugar: Ljubljana; Año: 2021 vol. 48 p. 414 - 431

1408-967X

The aim of the article is to assess the role played by bone tools at Boyo Paso 2 (Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina), an open-air site interpreted as a base-camp seasonally occupied by mobile mixed foraging and farming people ca. 900-700 year BP. Results suggest that diverse activities were carried out on-site, including hunting or warfare, tool production, food processing and rituals. Bone tool analysis may enable reconstruction of technological level, social organization and cultural attitude towards the environment among neither wholly foragers nor wholly farmers, a category for which archaeology currently lacks of sufficient archaeological understanding and merits further research.