From the genes to the museum: the exhibition of zooarchaeological materials: From the genes to the museum: the exhibition of zooarchaeological materials
Zooarchaeology, understood as the study of the relationships that animals have had with human populations of the past and about the multiplicity of roles they have fulfilled in human cultural systems, is a discipline that has experienced great national and international development in recent decades...
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Archaeology Department of the School of Anthropology, Faculty of the Humanities and Arts, National University of Rosario
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaanuarioarqueologia.unr.edu.ar/index.php/AA/article/view/7 |
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| Sumario: | Zooarchaeology, understood as the study of the relationships that animals have had with human populations of the past and about the multiplicity of roles they have fulfilled in human cultural systems, is a discipline that has experienced great national and international development in recent decades. The use of methods of anatomical and taxonomic quantification, and new methodologies and techniques such as isotopic and molecular analysis, has provided new perspectives for zooarchaeological research. However, we believe that the information these methodologies produce, and zooarchaeology in general, are often not adequately represented in museum institutions. These institutions mediate the link between society and its past through the construction of an institutional narrative that accompanies the archaeological collections on display. Here we research different museums of the Province of Buenos Aires and consider that the zooarchaeological record exhibition is usually subordinated to other archaeological collections (i.e. ceramics, lithic instruments), receiving a peripheral place within the institutional discourse. Therefore, we explore the diverse information that zooarchaeological samples can offer and generate proposals for their dissemination, emphasizing the importance of the protection and conservation of this heritage. |
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