Preliminary Geoarchaeological Analysis of the Colina Da Monte Site (Rocha, Uruguay)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A preliminary analysis of the geoarchaeology of the “Colina Da Monte” mound complex is presented here, a site located in the northern sector of the Sierra de los Ajos, Department of Rocha, Eastern Uruguay. Little is known about this sector of the Sierra, as past research focused largely on environmental conditions that possibly directly influenced cultural mound-building processes. Little attention has been paid to the extent to which humans experienced and shaped the landscape as places over time where various practices and interactions between people and changing material conditions took place. A wide-coverage subsurface survey was carried out with auger coring that allowed a first evaluation of the stratigraphic history and the formation processes of the site, the practices involved in its formation, and the effects that these practices had on the materiality of the place. It can be concluded that Colina Da Monte presents a complex dynamic of site formation processes. The analysis of the recovered material culture is in progress, as well as textural, radiocarbon, and chemical analysis of the soil that will provide more information on the processes that generated Colina Da Monte as a place of human activity with a complex spatiality and temporality.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36015.0