The Expedition of Benjamín Muniz Barreto to el Shincal de Quimivil (Londres, Catamarca)
By the late XIX century, the Hualfin Valley (Catamarca) awoke the interest of travellers, naturalists and scientists alike. They wrote the first descriptions, which currently form a document collection that gathers valuable information on the first archaeological discoveries of the valley. In 1919,...
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Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana
2018
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| Acceso en línea: | http://plarci.org/index.php/RAHAYL/article/view/231 http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/9952 |
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| Sumario: | By the late XIX century, the Hualfin Valley (Catamarca) awoke the interest of travellers, naturalists and scientists alike. They wrote the first descriptions, which currently form a document collection that gathers valuable information on the first archaeological discoveries of the valley. In 1919, Benjamín Muniz Barreto sponsored an archaeological expedition to the provinces of Northern Argentina, hiring Wladimir Weiser to lead. It gathered more than 12.000 archaeological pieces, which are held in the Archaeology Division of the Museum of La Plata since 1931. The importance of this collection lies on the documents it contains, such as travel diaries, notebooks, letters, photographs, charts and maps that were made during those days. In El Shincal de Quimivil, Weiser describes diverse structures in detail and, fundamentally, describes the natural and archaeological landscapes that allowed us to analyze the spatial occupation and identify the structures built. This process of constructing the archaeological evidence makes possible for us to identify and interpret in the present the context described in the past, taking it as a parallel line of evidence to generate hypotheses on the regional landscape, linking the story that documents tell with the results of three decades of research. |
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