Tecnología y subsistencia en el sitio arqueológico Cerro Tapera Vázquez (Parque Nacional Pre-Delta, República Argentina)

BONOMO, M.; CASTRO, J. C.; SILVA, C.

Cadernos do LEPAARQ

Laboratório de Ensino e Pesquisa em Antropologia e Arqueologia da Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Lugar: Pelotas; Año: 2014 vol. XI p. 63 - 92

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In this paper the results of the studies carried out on ceramic and bone materials recorded at Cerro Tapera Vázquez site (Argentinean Northeast) are presented. Taxonomic, anatomic and taphonomic studies of bone assemblages and technological-decorative analysis and refitting of pottery were undertaken. The site is located on a mound next to El Ceibo Creek, where 16 m2 were excavated in 2008. Abundant smooth, incised and modeled pottery (handles and zoomorphic appendages) and numerous bones remains of Myocastor coypus (most frequent taxon), Blastocerus dichotomus, Ozotoceros bezoarticus, Oncifelis geoffroyi, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris, birds and fish (Siluriformes and Characiformes) were recorded. Except fish, all taxa show evidence of anthropic modification (cut marks, fresh fractures and burning). Two radiocarbon dates were obtained: 650 and 520 yrs. BP. The results reached in this study lead to the conclusion that the pre-Hispanic populations that occupied Cerro Tapera Vázquez by the end of the Late Holocene were riverine canoe peoples, with complex ceramic technology and subsistence based on hunting of coypu, capybara and cervids, fishing and small-scale horticulture.