Buenos Aires Estuary Waterfront: The Zen City Wreck and Coastal Urban Archaeology

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This contribution presents the status of research and institutionalization of the underwater and coastal cultural heritage of the city of Buenos Aires. For this purpose, the environmental information and characteristics of the archaeological landscapes surveyed between 1995 and 2019 in excavations carried out in lands "gained from the river" on different parts of the city are presented in a synthetic way. The text begins with a description of the environmental and historical characteristics of the city's coastal sedimentary substrates, natural anchorages, and shelters. That is followed by the background and state of the question of archeological investigations, in order to set the basis for the ontological and methodological framework of the work on a regional scale. We continue with the presentation of the materials and archaeological assemblages that were surveyed in order to analyze the variability of sites and the diversity of artifactual functions. The results of the analysis are presented and discussed on a regional scale and chronology, considering the archaeological visibility of coastal embankments, old docks and wharfs, anchorages, sectors with ballast or hides, shipwrecks, barracks, and shipyards.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America

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Abstract Id(s): 38303.0