Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)

The main objective of this paper is to explore the reasons for hunter-gatherer raw material transport towards the Central Pampean Dunefields (Pampa grasslands of Argentina); a landscape lacking lithic raw materials. For this purpose, we present macroscopic characterizations of stone tools and analyz...

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Autores principales: Messineo, Pablo Geronimo, Barros, Maria Paula, Pal, Nélida Marcela, Scheifler, Nahuel Alberto
Formato: Artículo publishedVersion
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
Materias:
HUMAN INTERACTIONS
LAND-USE
MIDDLE/LATE HOLOCENE
MOBILITY PATTERNS
PRODUCTION AND USE STRATEGIES
STONE TRANSPORT
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/106196
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/106196
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Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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topic HUMAN INTERACTIONS
LAND-USE
MIDDLE/LATE HOLOCENE
MOBILITY PATTERNS
PRODUCTION AND USE STRATEGIES
STONE TRANSPORT
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
spellingShingle HUMAN INTERACTIONS
LAND-USE
MIDDLE/LATE HOLOCENE
MOBILITY PATTERNS
PRODUCTION AND USE STRATEGIES
STONE TRANSPORT
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Messineo, Pablo Geronimo
Barros, Maria Paula
Pal, Nélida Marcela
Scheifler, Nahuel Alberto
Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
topic_facet HUMAN INTERACTIONS
LAND-USE
MIDDLE/LATE HOLOCENE
MOBILITY PATTERNS
PRODUCTION AND USE STRATEGIES
STONE TRANSPORT
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
description The main objective of this paper is to explore the reasons for hunter-gatherer raw material transport towards the Central Pampean Dunefields (Pampa grasslands of Argentina); a landscape lacking lithic raw materials. For this purpose, we present macroscopic characterizations of stone tools and analyze different production and use strategies from four Holocene stratified sites: La Susana 1, Laguna de los Pampas, Laguna Cabeza de Buey 2, and Huencú Nazar. In these sites, the lithic assemblages are formed mainly by orthoquartzite and chert from theTandilia Range (southeast), followed by lower frequencies of other non-local lithic raw materials (silicified dolomite, silicified limestone, silex, sandstone, metaquartzite, chalcedony, ryolite, obsidian, among others),which came from diverse vectors of provenance (south, west, southeast, southwest, and northwest). We conclude that distances from the sites to the area of lithic acquisition was not the main factor in the use of certain stones in the Central Pampean Dunefields. Other variables have a more prominent role, such as the qualities of knapping rocks, the access to the quarries, the predominant direction of human mobility, and the social interactions between hunter-gatherer groups that occupied different territories of the Pampa grasslands during the Middle and Late Holocene.
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author Messineo, Pablo Geronimo
Barros, Maria Paula
Pal, Nélida Marcela
Scheifler, Nahuel Alberto
author_facet Messineo, Pablo Geronimo
Barros, Maria Paula
Pal, Nélida Marcela
Scheifler, Nahuel Alberto
author_sort Messineo, Pablo Geronimo
title Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
title_short Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
title_full Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
title_fullStr Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
title_full_unstemmed Transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: The case of the Central Pampean Dunefields (Argentina)
title_sort transporting rocks to an empty environment of lithic raw materials: the case of the central pampean dunefields (argentina)
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2019
url http://hdl.handle.net/11336/106196
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/106196
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