The Quarry in the Forest: The Case of the Upper Guanaco River (Southern Patagonia, Argentina)
Author(s): Juan Belardi; Silvana Laura Espinosa; Flavia Carballo Marina; Luis Horta
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Hunter-gatherer forest landscape use is an ongoing discussion in Southern Patagonia. The recent finding of a silicified rock quarry on the upper Guanaco River (close to the Andean range) adds important data to the debate focused on forest intensity use and it is useful to model forest-steppe interaction. The quarry, located in the western flank of a hill, in middle of the Nothofagus forest, has several levels of silicified rock (0.3–0.6 thickness) with flintknapping evidences. In this vein, workshops and rock hammers were found in strictly spatial association. From a regional biogeographic frame, the quarry could only be used during late spring and summer. Its intense but spatially restricted use is proposed. This evidence helps to rank how marginal was the forest for hunter-gatherer populations in a supraregional scale.
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The Quarry in the Forest: The Case of the Upper Guanaco River (Southern Patagonia, Argentina). Juan Belardi, Silvana Laura Espinosa, Flavia Carballo Marina, Luis Horta. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467528)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
South America: Patagonia and Southern Cone
Spatial Coverage
min long: -77.695; min lat: -55.279 ; max long: -47.813; max lat: -25.642 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32748