Ethnoarchaeology and Residue analysis in fisher-hunter-gatherer sites: a holistic methodological design

ZURRO, DÉBORA; BRIZ, IVÁN Y ALVAREZ, MYRIAN

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Congreso; 73rd Annual Meeting de la Society of American Archaeology; 2008

The excavation of the fisher-hunter-gatherer site Lanashuaia (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina), allowed us to design an accurate methodology for the analysis of residues. The characteristics of the context (recent chronology, good preservation, vegetable and animal consumed species already known, etc...) makes possible to test the methodology in order to know its viability (ethnoarchaeological approach). The residues analyzed (still in progress) come from knapped lithics as well as from archaeological sediments. In this paper, the methodological plan is described.