NAA Analysis of Ambato Ceramics from the Southern Andes (Eastern Valleys of Catamarca and Tucuman, Argentina)
Author(s): Martin Giesso; Andrés Laguens; Silvana Bertolino; Michael Glascock; Mathew Boulanger
Year: 2016
Summary
We analyze the provenience of clays used in the manufacture of Aguada ceramics, mainly black incised, characteristic of the Ambato valley of southeastern Catamarca (Argentina). This ceramic style is also present in lesser quantities in sites of other neighboring valleys/regions, most of it manufactured with the same clay. The research is part of a broader project to study economic organization and the emergence of complex societies in northwestern Argentina. Research that took place in the Ambato valley since the early 1990s has explored lifestyles characterized by institutional differences created and maintained between Aguada subgroups approximately between 500-1000 A.D.
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NAA Analysis of Ambato Ceramics from the Southern Andes (Eastern Valleys of Catamarca and Tucuman, Argentina). Martin Giesso, Andrés Laguens, Silvana Bertolino, Michael Glascock, Mathew Boulanger. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403039)
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Keywords
General
Ceramics
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INAA
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Northwest Argentina
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;