INCUAPA   23990
INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLOGICAS Y PALEONTOLOGICAS DEL CUATERNARIO PAMPEANO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Technological choices in local and non-local stone tools production and use in a ritual context (Calera site, Pampean grassland, Argentina)
Autor/es:
PABLO MESSINEO; MARÍA PAULA BARROS; NÉLIDA PAL
Lugar:
Memphis, Tennesse
Reunión:
Congreso; SAA 77th Anniversary Meeting; 2012
Resumen:
Calera site is located in an intermountain valley in the northwest Tandilia Range System. The hunter-gatherers groups who inhabited this area during the late Holocene exploited a wide variety of rocks and minerals. This site, located near several quarries and workshops, has been interpreted as the result of offerings and ceremonial trash deposited in pits related to ritual activities. The aim of this work is to discuss the strategies applied in the procurement, tool production and use of local chert and non-local orthoquartzite. Economic, functional, and social factors have influenced the way lithic tools were manufactured and used in Calera.