A combination of FT-IR, FT-Raman and GC-MS techniques for the identification of pastes from an archaeological site at Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

M. MAIER, D. FIORE, D.L.A. DE FARIA, S.D. PARERA

Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, USA

Simposio; The Seventh Biennial gathering of the infrared and raman users group (IRUG7); 2006

IRUG Group

In continuation of our studies on archaeological pastes we have studied the inorganic and organic components of two samples of red painting residues that were in stratigraphic position in the archaeological site Shamakush I in Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. The two samples were found in strata dated by 14C in 940 ± 100 B.P. and belong to hunter-gatherer-fisher societies that started their littoral adaptations in the Beagle Channel coast 6200 BP.