Zooarchaeology for the City. An urban Case, La Boca, Buenos Aires City circa 1860

CHICHKOYAN KARINA VANESA

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Springer Science and Business

Año: 2013 vol. 17 p. 159 - 181

1092-7697

Zooarchaeological works in the city lack of a specific theoretical and methodological framework to understand its faunal assemblages. The different analyses were done in most cases following procedures that had been developed for hunter-gatherer contexts. In this paper, we evaluate some questions related to this issue, encompassed in the acquisition mode and the characteristics of the archaeological record. Finally, an example from two sites in La Boca, Buenos Aires city, Argentina is given in order to understand some of these questions.