INCIHUSA   20883
INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS HUMANAS, SOCIALES Y AMBIENTALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
"Fish exploitation in the Argentina Central Western wetlands".
Autor/es:
MERCEDES CORBAT, PABLO CAHIZA; JORGE GARCÍA LLORCA, ADOLFO GIL
Lugar:
Stateline, Nevada
Reunión:
Conferencia; 33rd Biennial Great Basin Anthropological Conference; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Great Basin Anthropological Association
Resumen:
While looking at Llancanelo and Guanacache wetland in the
Mendoza context, one could ask What are wetlands and lakes
doing in a landscape that is otherwise so thirsty-looking?, as
Madsen and Kelly have done referring to the Great Basin (2008:
79). For the north of our region (Central Western Argentina or
CWA), García Llorca and Cahiza (2007) note that the presence of
permanent bodies of water in landscapes dominated by aridity
must have exercised a strong attraction on local populations. For
the south, Gil et al. (2007) propose that expectation, which was
turned into biogeographical terms as a former occupation of those
spaces with the greater water availability. The way people used
wetlands was a product not only of the resources they offered but
also of what was available in the surrounding areas (Madsen &
Kelly 2008).
Aquatic ecosystems in deserts have been characterized as
extremely unstable and fluctuating in a great deal (Greenspan
1990). Therefore, Guanacache and Llancanelo wetlands must not
have had the same importance to human populations through
time. Archaeological sites with fish remains have been found in
both areas. In all cases they belong to Late Holocene, when
current climatic conditions begin to stabilize, but a great variability
in precipitation and maybe in temperature is recorded.