Humanized nature: symbolic representation of fauna in pottery from the Middle and Lower Paraná River (Argentina).

BONOMO, M.; POLITIS, G.

Kyoto

Congreso; World Archaeological Congress 8; 2016

World Archaeological Congress

The social and symbolic dimensions between animals and pre-Hispanic indigenous people from the Middle and Lower Paraná River are discussed. This issue is approached throughout the analyses of pottery zoomorphic appendages, which represent birds, mammals, reptiles and mollusks, and are assigned to the Goya-Malabrigo archaeological entity (2000-500 BP). These appendages have realistic morphological details that allowed the taxonomic identification. This is contrasted with the faunal remains from the sites. Combining these different sources of information let us to discuss a regional model related to human-animal interaction, which in turn contributes to approach global issues such as the naturalization of culture.