Much more than just lithic procurement: activities at quarries and social practices in Pampa Oeste, Quebrada Seca and Punta de la Peña quarries (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca)
Quarries and workshops at Punta de la Peña, Quebrada Seca and Pampa Oeste (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca) are considered in this paper. The goal is to explore the multiplicity of social activities and practices involved in the use of these quarries. These three vulcanite sources were intensive...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/11458 |
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| Sumario: | Quarries and workshops at Punta de la Peña, Quebrada Seca and Pampa Oeste (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca) are considered in this paper. The goal is to explore the multiplicity of social activities and practices involved in the use of these quarries. These three vulcanite sources were intensively exploited during the pre-Hispanic history of the region. In this way, quarries are not only considered rock deposits useful for subsistence, but also a social scenario where different social practices and social expressions converge and are materialized. Thereby, series of linked tasks are added to rock exploitation. For example, teaching/learning practices and subsistence, processing/consumption and ritual activities. This approach considers quarries from a perspective oriented to the analysis of elections and practices carried out by agents in provisioning contexts. It assumes that social actors develop a variety of activities which are connected to the appropriation of a specific resource. |
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