A multianalytical approach to understand El Alto-Ancasti’s painted pottery (northwestern Argentina). Non-invasive and micro-invasive analyses of vessel’s paintings from El Taco 19

GHECO, LUCAS; TASCON, MARCOS; BAROT, CARLOS; ZUCCHI, VICTORIA; QUESADA, MARCOS; GASTALDI, MARCOS; HALAC, EMILIA; ÁLVAREZ, RODRIGO; MARTE, FERNANDO

ARCHAEOMETRY

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Año: 2023

0003-813X

Archaeometric analysis applied to the study of prehispanic pottery is a growing field in archaeologicalresearch in northwestern Argentina. Most of these investigations have focused on intra-stylevariability, comparing samples from the same style but obtained in different sites throughout largeregions. In this work, we propose to shift the approach and adopt a local micro-scale perspective todeepen the knowledge regarding pottery manufacturing. As a case study, pottery sherds fromdifferent styles discovered in the archaeological site El Taco 19 (El Alto-Ancasti Mountain, Catamarca)were selected. To this end, we proposed a multi-analytical approach employing non-invasive andmicro-invasive analytical techniques.