Instrumentos expeditivos o fracturas intencionales? Aportes a la discusión sobre los "machacadores" óseos de Patagonia

SANTIAGO FERNANDO; SALEMME MÓNICA

Aracaju, Brasil

Congreso; III Encuentro Latinoamericano de Zooarqueología; 2016

Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Departamento de Arqueologia-DARQ

170 bony artefacts from two archaeological sites of northern Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) related to pedestrian hunter-gatherers are analyzed All the artefacts were performed on guanaco (Lama guanicoe) long bones. The main features and some interpretations about the use of these artefacts are presented, considering their contextual provenance. Our hypothesis sustain that they were expedient artefacts or ?crushers? more than a particular technique to provoke a transversal fracture.