Functional Morphological Analysis of the Glass Materials from the Mariano Miró Site, a Village at the Early Twentieth Century. (Department of Chapaleufú. Province of La Pampa. Argentina)
Mariano Miró archaeological site was a village that functioned next to the Mariano Miró station on the Western Railway between 1901 and 1913. It was inhabited by European immigrants who populated the north of the province of La Pampa, Argentina, after the extermination of the indigenous people. The...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos. UA CONICET
2022
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| Sumario: | Mariano Miró archaeological site was a village that functioned next to the Mariano Miró station on the Western Railway between 1901 and 1913. It was inhabited by European immigrants who populated the north of the province of La Pampa, Argentina, after the extermination of the indigenous people.
The archeology team arrived at the site at the request of the province's Ministry of Culture since the teacher and students from the nearby rural school had exhibited some of the materials found on the surface at the Provincial Science Fair.
Since 2011 archaeological tasks have been carried out. First, an area of 39,200 m2 was determined from the dispersion of the materials on the surface. Then, 14 transects were drawn in a west-east direction divided into 7 sectors. There the metal detector was passed to determine subsurface concentrations and all the surface materials were collected. Finally, 23 pit-holes, 2 grids and 3 trenches were carried out, taking into account the material recovered on the surface and the characteristics of the terrain.
Among archaeological remains, glass objects represent a large percentage of what is recovered from historical archaeological sites. Therefore, we propose to analyze the transformations in consumption practices that were carried out on the site by the new settlers since 1884. In order to observe those transformations, we analyze the morphology and function of 12.501 vitreous fragments recovered from the surface and underground. Furthermore, we study historical sources such as advertisements of the time. |
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