ISES   20394
INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ESTUDIOS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Rethinking Communal Foraging Events from Rock Shelter Cases of Northwestern Argentina’s
Autor/es:
KORSTANJE, MARÍA ALEJANDRA
Lugar:
Dublin, Iranda
Reunión:
Congreso; WAC 6; 2008
Institución organizadora:
WAC
Resumen:
Traditional analytical dichotomies are common in Archaeology: while “domesticated” may have been a powerful tool for explain changes in exploratory economies, the “wild” remained an obscure category in problems related to productive societies. This strong differentiation between livelihoods/lifestyles was particularly clear in the archaeology of rock shelter occupations, which usually have not “productive” loci associated. With some exceptions, rock shelters occupied during the agricultural period were not considered “domestic enough”, and researchers continuously described the vegetal resources founded in those contexts as wild/domestic, but clearly interested in the staples as the important remains. On the contrary, when the context is supposed to be primarily “wild” -hunter and gatherer societies- the “domesticated” staple recovers more importance and is putted in a new ambiguous category as “foreign” or “exchanged”.             We make a revision of the events of those archaeological records from the communal foraging perspective and social rules established by different societies.