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Magallania (punta Arenas) | 2010

SITIO LOMA DE LOS MUERTOS: MÚLTIPLES OCUPACIONES SOBRE UN MÉDANO DEL ESTE DE NORPATAGONIA (ARGENTINA)

Luciano Prates; Violeta Di Prado; Emiliano Mange; Y Alejandro Serna

RESUMENEn este trabajo se presentan los resultados del estudio del contexto arqueologico del sitio Loma de los Muertos (departamento de General Conesa, provincia de Rio Negro, Argentina). En el sitio se llevaron a cabo actividades multiples asociadas a un campamento residencial y se realizaron entierros humanos y de, al menos, un canido extinto ( Dusicyon avus ). Se obtuvieron tres fechados para los entierros humanos y uno para los restos del carnivoro, que los ubican entre ca. 3.000 y 2.000 anos AP. Complementa-riamente, los materiales de superfi cie asociados al campamento fueron fechados en ca . 500 anos AP. Sobre la base de esta informacion, fueron inferidos al menos cuatro episodios diferentes de ocupacion. La mayor parte de las materias primas liticas utilizadas y reducidas en el sitio se obtuvieron de fuentes locales de aprovisionamiento. Con ellas se fabricaron instrumentos de fi lo (principalmente raspadores) y de superfi cies activas (sobre todo de molienda). Se explotaron varias clases de fauna, como mamiferos (guanaco y venado de las pampas); aves (nandu); peces y moluscos de agua dulce; todos disponibles en proximidades del sitio. El estudio de los restos de alfareria permitio reconstruir el perfi l de un recipiente que fue utilizado posiblemente para el procesamiento de alimentos sobre el fuego. Las evidencias dispo-nibles no prueban la contemporaneidad de los entierros y las actividades de campamento.PALABRAS CLAVES: Norpatagonia, Holoceno tardio, medano, campamento base, entierros humanos.


Magallania (punta Arenas) | 2010

CARACTERIZACIÓN DE LOS ENTIERROS HUMANOS DEL SITIO LOMA DE LOS MUERTOS (VALLE MEDIO DEL RÍO NEGRO, ARGENTINA)

Luciano Prates; Gustavo Flensborg; Y Pablo Bayala

In this paper the characteristics of the bioarchaeological record of Loma de los Muertos site (departament of General Conesa, Rio Negro province, Argentine) is presented. This site was defi ned as a base camp where inhumatories practices were carried out in a temporal span of more than 1.000 years. Three primary burials were recovered and radiocarbon dates suggest several occupations betwen


Archive | 2015

Early Asiatic Migration to the Americas: A View from South America

Gustavo Politis; Luciano Prates; S. Ivan Perez

During last three decades, American archaeology has generated a large body of information, which has fuelled debate on the early peopling of the New World. This has allowed scientists to propose and validate macro-regional (continental) dispersal models, empirically grounded in multiple lines of evidence. On the basis of reviewing archaeological and bioarchaeological data, and emphasizing the southern South American information, we summarize and discuss the main topics of the current debate. We presently consider that the first humans arrived on the northern continent from the Asian northwest some time at the end of the Pleistocene, approximately 15,000–14,000 14C years BP. A short time later (ca. 12,500 14C years), they had already reached the Southern Cone of South America.


Chungara | 2015

EXPLOTACIÓN DE FRUTOS DE ALGARROBO (PROSOPIS SPP.) POR GRUPOS CAZADORES RECOLECTORES DEL NORESTE DE PATAGONIA

Aylen Capparelli; Luciano Prates

The significance of edible plants in the subsistence of the hunter-gatherers of Southern South America has not been dealt with indepth by archaeological rese...


Magallania (punta Arenas) | 2015

PINTURAS RUPESTRES EN UN ESPACIO FUNERARIO: EL CASO DEL SITIO CUEVA GALPÓN (NORESTE DE PATAGONIA)

Natalia Carden; Luciano Prates

En este trabajo se presentan los primeros resultados del estudio del arte rupestre del sitio Cueva Galpon (noreste de la Patagonia, Argentina). Las evidencias arqueologicas halladas en la cueva estan representadas por dos entierros humanos y pinturas rupestres rojas, negras y blancas. El analisis esta orientado a evaluar la variabilidad interna del arte, plantear una secuencia de produccion y discutir su contexto arqueologico. Los dos primeros objetivos se abordan mediante la caracterizacion formal de los motivos, el analisis de las superposiciones y la evaluacion del estado de preservacion. La contextualizacion se resuelve en las escalas intrasitio e intersitio, en la primera se evalua el grado de relacion entre las pinturas y los eventos mortuorios, y en la segunda se analizan las similitudes y diferencias con el arte rupestre de la region para discutir sus implicancias estilisticas, tecnologicas y cronologicas. Los resultados sugieren un piso cronologico de ca. 3.000 anos para la ejecucion de los motivos (lo cual coincide con las fechas obtenidas en uno de los entierros humanos) y un uso diacronico de la cueva tanto para la produccion de imagenes como para las inhumaciones. Se propone una probable interdependencia entre ambas practicas y se discute el caracter inusual de esta asociacion en el contexto arqueologico regional del Holoceno tardio. ABSTRACT This paper introduces the first results from the study of the rock art evidence from Cueva Galpon (northeast Patagonia, Argentina). The archaeological evidence found in the cave is represented by two human burials and red, black and white rock paintings. It is intended to evaluate the internal variability of the rock art, to propose a production sequence and to discuss its archaeological context. The first two objectives are approached through the formal characterization of motifs, the analysis of superimpositions and the evaluation of weathering. The contextualization is carried out through the intra-site and inter-site scales. The first one evaluates the relationships between the paintings and mortuary practices, and the second analyzes the similarities and differences with the regional rock art in order to discuss their stylistic,technologic and chronologic implications. The results suggest a chronology of ca. 3.000 years for the production of rock art (coincident with the dates obtained for one of the human burials) and a diachronic use of the cave both for the production of images and the inhumations. A possible interdependency between both kinds of practices is proposed, and this unusual association is discussed in the light of the regional information from the Late Holocene.


Quaternary International | 2013

Radiocarbon chronology of the early human occupation of Argentina

Luciano Prates; Gustavo Politis; James Steele


Quaternary International | 2011

Small mammal remains recovered from two archaeological sites in the middle and lower Negro River valley (Late Holocene, Argentina): Taphonomic issues and paleoenvironmental implications

Fernando J. Fernández; Luis M. del Papa; Germán J. Moreira; Luciano Prates; Luciano J. M. De Santis


Quaternary International | 2011

Constraining the time of extinction of the South American fox Dusicyon avus (Carnivora, Canidae) during the late Holocene

Francisco J. Prevosti; Fernando Santiago; Luciano Prates; Mónica Salemme


Quaternary International | 2013

A Late Pleistocene/early Holocene archaeological 14C database for South America and the Isthmus of Panama: Palaeoenvironmental contexts and demographic interpretations

Lucas Bueno; Luciano Prates; Gustavo G. Politis; James Steele


Quaternary International | 2015

Radiocarbon trends in the Pampean region (Argentina). Biases and demographic patterns during the final Late Pleistocene and Holocene

Gustavo Martínez; Luciano Prates; Gustavo Flensborg; Luciana Stoessel; Ana Paula Alcaráz; Pablo Bayala

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Emiliano Mange

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Gustavo Flensborg

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Gustavo Politis

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Alejandro Serna

National University of La Plata

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Fernando J. Fernández

National University of La Plata

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Matías E. Medina

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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Pablo Bayala

National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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S. Ivan Perez

National University of La Plata

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James Steele

University College London

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Adriana Blasi

National University of La Plata

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