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ARZAMENDIA yanina
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Título:
Barrancas Biocultural Heritage Project, Argentinean Puna.
Autor/es:
OXMAN, BRENDA; ARZAMENDIA, YANINA; MORALES, M.; ROJO, V.; YACOBACCIO, H.
Lugar:
Groningen
Reunión:
Conferencia; 41st AEA Webinars Sustainability in Environmental Archaeology; 2020
Institución organizadora:
groningen university- Association for Environmental Archaeology
Resumen:
The aim of this paper is to present the Barrancas Biocultural Heritage Project, Argentinean Puna. The Puna is an arid region, with intense solar radiation, extreme temperatures and scattered resources. The socio-economic organization is based on llamas and sheep herding, and family scale horticulture. Primary productivity is concentrated in stable hydrological systems, which frequently form ?vegas?. Vegas are essential in Puna landscape since they sustain plant communities which concentrate the highest primary productivity and biological diversity in a regional scale. Vegas are intensively used for grazing animals, channeling waters to irrigate crops and natural vegetation for fed livestock, and building infrastructure for the water supply for the town. Due to the importance of the ecological services of these ecosystems and that they are very vulnerable to climate change, their study and protection is urgent.Barrancas is currently inhabited by indigenous people and local communities and the area constitutes a County Reserve in order to protect the rock-art and archaeological sites. Archaeological evidence showed that since the late Pleistocene human populations have occupied the region forging an intimate relationship with the environment and developing different strategies (domestication of camelids) to adapt to the uncertainty of climate variability and behavior that defines them as resilient.This interdisciplinary project shows the complex human-vegas interaction history, incorporates multiple lines of evidence from environmental (pollen, diatoms and geomorphology analysis) and social sciences (ethnography) and traditional knowledge, in order to generate a wetlands management plan to promote public policies for the conservation and enhancement of heritage.
