INVESTIGADORES
PANARELLO Hector Osvaldo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Intra-population variation in carbon and nitrogen isotope composition from bone collagen from modern wild and domesticated camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina
Autor/es:
SAMEC, C. T.; ARZAMENDIA, Y.; BALDO, J.; PANARELLO, H.O.; YACOBACCIO, H. D.
Lugar:
Mendoza
Reunión:
Conferencia; 12th International Conference ICAZ; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Internarional Council for Archaeology
Resumen:
The
isotopic composition of animal tissues can be used to address dietary,
physiological and environmental variation in wild and domestic animals from
modern and archaeological contexts. The relationship between human groups and
animal populations in the past can be studied through stable isotope analysis
of zooarchaeological remains, especially when addressing human strategies
involving both the hunting of wild animals and the herding of domestic ones.
The use of these methods in tissues from wild animals can help us to
distinguish whether particular archaeological assemblages resulted from mass
kill events or accumulations of many kill episodes occurred in the past. In
contrast, the use of these methods in tissues from domestic animals can help us
to investigate flock composition, diet and mobility in the past. However,
before these methods can be applied to resolve such questions, intra-herd
variation in isotopic composition and its causes must be addressed and explored
by a modern reference data set. For this purpose, we conducted a preliminary
study of the intra- herd variation in d13C and d15N values measured on bone
collagen from wild (V. vicugna) and domesticated (L. glama) camelids of the Dry
Puna of Argentina. This work represents the first step towards the study of
intra-herd variability through stable isotope analysis in wild and domesticated
camelid herds in order to address hunting and herding strategies employed by
human groups in the past