INCUAPA   23990
INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLOGICAS Y PALEONTOLOGICAS DEL CUATERNARIO PAMPEANO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
capítulos de libros
Título:
Humanized nature: symbolic representation of fauna in pottery from the Paraná River of South America
Autor/es:
BONOMO MARIANO; MOREIRA, GERMÁN; POLITIS, GUSTAVO; BASTOURRE, LAURA
Libro:
South American Contributions to World Archaeology
Editorial:
Springer-Nature
Referencias:
Lugar: Switzerland; Año: 2021; p. 411 - 446
Resumen:
In this chapter, the economic and symbolic relations between animalsand pre-Hispanic indigenous people from the Middle and Lower Paraná River ofArgentina, South America are discussed. This issue is approached throughout theanalyses of pottery zoomorphic appendages, which represent birds, mammals, reptilesand mollusks, and are assigned to the Goya-Malabrigo archaeological entity(~2000 14C yrs BP to seventeenth century). These appendages have realistic morphologicaldetails that allowed taxonomic identification at class, order, family,genus or species level. These pottery representations of the animals are contrastedwith the faunal remains from the Goya-Malabrigo archaeological sites. The combinationof these different information sources shows that the preys that were regularlyeaten were not depicted in the appendages, and that the nutritional role ofanimals was not favored in these representations. The present study allows a discussionabout the human-animal interrelation, which in turn contributes to global theoreticalapproaches, related to the humanization of nature.