Reanálisis de la colección de Samuel Lothrop procedente del Delta del Paraná

BONOMO, M.

Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología

Sociedad Argentina de Antropología

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2013 p. 169 - 198

0325-2221

This article presents the first results of the re-analysis of Samuel Kirkland Lothrop?s archaeological collection gathered during the field works he carried out in 1925 in the Paraná Delta (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). The archaeological materials from Arroyo Malo, El Cerrillo and Arroyo Sarandí sites of the National Museum of the American Indian collections (Washington, DC), were studied. This new information allows to analyze in depth two key aspects of the article?s discussion: the bone technology and the Southern expansion of the Guaraní populations in the La Plata Basin. The review of both unpublished documents and bibliography related to this American archaeologist allow to contextualize the research and contribute to the history of the discipline. This latest approach revealed that during the First and the Second World Wars Lothrop acted as a spy in different Latin American countries.