El análisis de elementos traza y de las relaciones entre isótopos estables del carbono en cerámicas del Temprano (3000 a.p.) de la Puna Jujeña, como indicadores de su manufactura autóctona y funcionalidad probable.

PANARELLO, H.0.; FERNANDEZ, J.; RAMOS, A.

Cuadernos 3 de La Facultad de Ciencia s Sociales

Universidad Nacional de Jujuy

Lugar: Universidad Nacional de Jujuy; Año: 1992 vol. 3 p. 13 - 19

0327-1471

ABSTRACT   The excavation of Cristóbal rock has provided interesting evidence of the prehistoric process which may have regulated the adoption of pottery manufacture in a marginal area of the Altiplano. It is domestic pottery used for cooking, whose outer surface shows applications for impressions of an imbricated appearance: Its special interest lies in the fact that its radiocarbonic chronology (2860 ± 160) BP is one of the earliest obtained up to this moment in the region for a pottery bearing context, allowing us to situate it in the Early Period.  Petrografic studies and trace element analysis (Rb/Sr) by means of X-ray fluorescence prove that the source of tempering materials (hornblended granite) is autochthonous, allowing us to consider that is also pertinent for the manufacturing process. Stable carbon isotope ratios (13C/12C) measured in the carbonized adherences covering the vessel?s inner surface suggest, on the one hand, that tuber of quinoa must have been cooked inside them, while on the other they permit to discuss that prehistoric population should have had access to maize consumption.  It is considered that imbricated pottery, as well as some of the rocks art designs to which it is associated in Cristóbal, constitute chronological and cultural markers, available for the individualizations of new archaeological sites of the Early period, one of the less known in the regional sequence.