Estudio de la cerámica de la Costa Norte de Santa Cruz: análisis iniciales de distribución y caracterización tecnomorfológica

ROUMEC ANTONELLA; ZUBIMENDI MIGUEL ÁNGEL; CIAMPAGNA MARÍA LAURA

Cerámica Arqueológica de la Patagonia

Fundación Félix de Azara

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2020; p. 11 - 34

More than 30 years ago, a systematic archaeological research began on the northerncoast of Santa Cruz. Along this time, a large amount of ceramic sherdshave been recovered,which are uncommon in the Patagonic archaeological record in comparison toother materials, such as lithic artefacts or bone remains. Recently, in the context of thestudy of other aspects of the material life of hunter-gatherer populations of this area,we have begun to analyse the ceramic technology. Materials considered come fromdifferent contexts in superficial and stratigraphic position. In this paper, we presentthe first partial studies from the classification and analysis of all existing shreds in thecollections of the research team. As a first step, a protocol and a descriptive databaseof the pieces were generated, where different types of variables were included. In thisway 394 ceramics have been registered, mostly in certain archaeological localitiesof our study area, although its distribution covers the entire coastline of the researchproject area. Also, almost all sherds correspond to domestic ceramics, and there is alow percentage of pieces with different design elements. From this initial approach wehave an extensive sample to carry out different kinds of studies in the future, such asmorphological, decorative designs and analysis of residues, such as micro-nutrients,among others. We pretend to recover this part of the Patagonian archaeological heritagethat remained forgotten.