The Presence of Groups of Amazonian Cultural Matrix in the La Plata River

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Amazon has traditionally been seen as the scenery for different original human experiences. In recent years, research has allowed us to improve our knowledge of the territorial and cultural dynamics of Amazonian groups in South America. In this context, the spatial analysis of ceramic traditions allows us to know and recognize the dispersion of groups of Arawak and Guaraní matrix towards places as distant as the La Plata river. These episodes of human migration seem to have begun about 2000 years ago BP, and they allow us to recognize precise cultural matrices, diverse archaeological contexts and reliable chronologies. This work presents information on the Guaraní cultural tradition, based on the survey of presence of ceramic material attributed to this group. The diverse contexts in which this material has been recorded are analyzed, as well as the cultural dynamics in which it could be involved. The relevance that the La Plata river has within a wide sphere of cultural interaction that links the Southern Cone of South America with Amazonia is also discussed.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24862