Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina

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Desert environments have generally been considered unsuitable places for the development of human communities. However, archaeological research shows that they have been intensively populated and traveled landscapes. These environments share common characteristics (scarcity of surface water, desert...

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Autor principal: Beron, Monica Alejandra
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd 2016
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ARGENTINA
COLONIZING PATTERNS
DESERT ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN ATTRACTORS
WESTERN PAMPA
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/39342
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/39342
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Suquía - Instituto de Antropología de Córdoba (IDACOR, CONICET y UNC) de Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
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topic ARGENTINA
COLONIZING PATTERNS
DESERT ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN ATTRACTORS
WESTERN PAMPA
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
spellingShingle ARGENTINA
COLONIZING PATTERNS
DESERT ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN ATTRACTORS
WESTERN PAMPA
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Beron, Monica Alejandra
Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
topic_facet ARGENTINA
COLONIZING PATTERNS
DESERT ENVIRONMENT
HUMAN ATTRACTORS
WESTERN PAMPA
Historia
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
description Desert environments have generally been considered unsuitable places for the development of human communities. However, archaeological research shows that they have been intensively populated and traveled landscapes. These environments share common characteristics (scarcity of surface water, desert vegetation, high evapotranspiration, water imbalance, among others). But archaeological investigations account for the variability of both, desert settings and social trajectories of their populations. In Western Pampa (southwest of La Pampa province, Argentina), the distribution and availability of fresh water is the main variable for spatial organization of prehispanic populations. Also the crossroads of Indian trails or rastrilladas, articulated and connected places that mitigated its hostility, such as dune fields, springs, hill ranges, natural pools, temporary or permanent ponds. It is around these reservoirs that prehispanic human activities are recorded. Archaeological sites are sometimes ephemeral, in other of recurrent use. Considering the significant environmental dynamics of this landscape, it is possible to discuss the differential organizational patterns recorded alongside this arid region.
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title Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
title_short Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
title_full Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
title_fullStr Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: Attractors for human populations in western Pampa, Argentina
title_sort dunes, hills, waterholes, and saltpeter beds: attractors for human populations in western pampa, argentina
publisher Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
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http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/39342
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