INVESTIGADORES
CARUSO Laura Lihue
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Wood technology of Patagonian hunter-gatherers. A use-wear analysis study from the site of Cerro Casa de Piedra 7 (Patagonia, Argentina)
Autor/es:
CARUSO FERMÉ, L; CLEMENTE, I; BEYRIES, S; CIVALERO, M. T.
Lugar:
Faro
Reunión:
Congreso; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON USE-WEAR ANALYSIS; 2012
Institución organizadora:
Universidade Do Algarve
Resumen:
In the Patagonian archaeological record, the preservation of wooden artefacts is very restricted. Functional analysis of lithic artefacts is a way to get a better understanding of the use and consumption of vegetative/plant resources. However, although the study of artefacts used during wood processing offer good indicatons of the use of wood itself as the raw material, such analysis does not enable to identify the technological processes applied to the wood. Therefore, technical and functional analyses are a way to approach the production processes of wooden artefacts and objects. The use-wear study presented here consists of the analysis of traces preserved on the surface of a wooden artefact retrieved from layer 6 (5.310±11 BP) at the site of Cerra Casa de Piedra 7 (province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia, Argentina). The interpretation of this piece is hampered by the absence of ethnographical references and the lack of similar archaeological finds attributed to contexts of Patagonian hunter-gatherers. However, through the observation of the various traces, it is possible to identify in which way and with which instruments this piece of wood was made.