Technology, raw materials use and ocupational redundancy: the archaeological locality of Punta Odriozola, Río Negro province coast, Argentina
The archaeological locality of Punta Odriozola, on the west coast of San Matías gulf (Río Negro province), has certain characteristics that would have made it suitable for the redundant occupation along the Middle and Late Holocene by hunter-gatherer groups. Among them, the most important ones would...
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Instituto de Arqueología y Museo, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | http://publicaciones.csnat.unt.edu.ar/index.php/mundodeantes/article/view/49 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/10025 |
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| Sumario: | The archaeological locality of Punta Odriozola, on the west coast of San Matías gulf (Río Negro province), has certain characteristics that would have made it suitable for the redundant occupation along the Middle and Late Holocene by hunter-gatherer groups. Among them, the most important ones would have been the availability of lithic raw materials, the presence of estuaries with sandy beaches, and the possibility of the existence of fresh water deposited in dunes. In this paper we present the results of the technological, taphonomic, raw materials, instrumental diversity and spatial modeling analysis that were used to evaluate the occupational redundancy of the site. The results indicate that the studied area was used repeatedly along time, becoming a preferred space used in a planned way that involved different activities of resource processing, raw material provisioning, flaking and maintenance of artifacts and/or technical systems, and transportation of blanks. The concentrations of lithic weights and grinding stone tools suggests that a strategy of preferential use may have been carried on in some sectors of the locality over others, in relation to certain activities, which is seen as differential artifact discard and variations in the density of the lithic record. |
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