Study of the silicophytoliths of three species of wild Solanaceae reported to be used in prehispanic populations that inhabited the Paraná Delta
Wild plants have been of great importance in the subsistence of the archaeological populations that occupied the Delta of the Paraná River prior to the Spanish conquest. This was unknown until a few years ago, because initially their food was studied through the resources obtained by hunting and fis...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Museo de Antropología
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/44262 |
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| Sumario: | Wild plants have been of great importance in the subsistence of the archaeological populations that occupied the Delta of the Paraná River prior to the Spanish conquest. This was unknown until a few years ago, because initially their food was studied through the resources obtained by hunting and fishing, ignoring the importance that the plant world had in the daily life of these peoples. Because of this, the present work aims to be a significant contribution in the beginning of the elaboration of a reference collection of local plants that could have had diverse uses by the inhabitants of the region, in order to reduce biases and begin to identify species that have not been considered so far. Analyses of biosiliceous microrrests were carried out in order to identify diagnostic phytoliths of the species Solanum glaucophyllum Desf., Solanum pseudocapsicum L. and Salpichroa origanifolia (Lam.) Baill. According to the ethnographic record, these species are of economic interest because they are part of the extensive list of edible species of the Solanaceae family. |
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