Taphonomic action of foxes in Puna rockshelters. A case study in Antofagasta de la Sierra (Province of Catamarca, Argentina).

MARIANA MONDINI

Ethnoarchaeology of Andean South America: Contributions to Archaeological Method and Theory

International Monographs in Prehistory, Ethnoarchaeological Series

Lugar: Ann Arbor; Año: 2001; p. 266 - 295

This paper is about the taphonomic action of foxes in Puna rockshelters1.  The archaeological record from caves and rockshelters in gen­eral has played a very important role in the archaeology of the Ar­gentine Puna (see Elkin et al. 1991 for a synthesis). The research reported here has been aimed at learning about the formation processes of these deposits.