Changed into tools. Camelid bones from the Southern Calchaquí Valleys (Formative period, Northwestern Argentina)

IZETA, ANDRÉS D.; CATTÁNEO, GABRIELA ROXANA; M. CRISTINA SCATTOLIN; CORTÉS, LETICIA INÉS

From These Bare Bones: Raw materials and the study of worked osseous objects

Oxbow Books

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2013; p. 50 - 58

This paper presents the results of macro and microscopic analysis of a sample of ten bone tools dated to the Formative Period in the Southern Calchaquí Valleys, Northwestern Argentina. All instruments were made on South American camelid metapodials following a very standardized technique. In concordance with previous models of handling and use of camelid resources, we propose that these instruments could have been employed in the processing soft materials (e.g. weaving or basketry). http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/from-these-bare-bones.html