INCUAPA   23990
INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLOGICAS Y PALEONTOLOGICAS DEL CUATERNARIO PAMPEANO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Ritual uses and stone tools: analysis of the lithic assemblage of Calera archaeological site (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Autor/es:
NÉLIDA PAL; MIRIAM ALVAREZ; PABLO MESSINEO; MARIA PAULA BARROS
Lugar:
Faro
Reunión:
Congreso; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USE-­‐WEAR ANALYSIS; 2012
Resumen:
Calera site, located in an intermountain valley in the northwest of Tandilia Hills, has been interpreted as an exceptional context constituted by offerings and ceremonial trash deposited in pits, and related to ritual contexts generated during band aggregation periods in the late Holocene. The ceremonial context is based on the quantity and variety of archaeological material, the identification of resources coming from other areas of the Pampean region, the structure complexity of the site, and the restricted seasonality of different occupations. In this presentation we report use-wear analysis carried out on lithic raw material from pits 1, 2, and 4 identified in Calera. The aim is to identify the production- consumption activities during the ritual, applying use-wear method. The analysis of lithic tools recovered from the pits allow us to identify different productive processes: long retouched edges were used to develop a wide variety of tasks (wood and soft vegetable cutting, hide and wood scraping, among others) in contrast short retouched and natural edges. To sum up, different economic, social, environmental, and symbolic factors have intervened in the selection, production, and use of stone tools by the hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited Calera.