Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)

How pre-Hispanic foragers adjusted their foraging and mobility strategies to plant cultivation is a question that drives much of the modern archaeological research. As a result, the spread of food-producing economies during the late pre-Hispanic period from Sierras of Cordoba (Argentina, ca. 1500–36...

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Autores principales: Medina, Matías Eduardo, López, María Laura, Campos, Mailín, Saur Palmieri, Valentina, Pastor, Sebastián
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
Materias:
Ciencias Naturales
Arqueología
Botánica
Zooarchaeology
Archaeobotany
Mobility
Seasonal use
Foraging
Farming
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/133298
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topic Ciencias Naturales
Arqueología
Botánica
Zooarchaeology
Archaeobotany
Mobility
Seasonal use
Foraging
Farming
spellingShingle Ciencias Naturales
Arqueología
Botánica
Zooarchaeology
Archaeobotany
Mobility
Seasonal use
Foraging
Farming
Medina, Matías Eduardo
López, María Laura
Campos, Mailín
Saur Palmieri, Valentina
Pastor, Sebastián
Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
topic_facet Ciencias Naturales
Arqueología
Botánica
Zooarchaeology
Archaeobotany
Mobility
Seasonal use
Foraging
Farming
description How pre-Hispanic foragers adjusted their foraging and mobility strategies to plant cultivation is a question that drives much of the modern archaeological research. As a result, the spread of food-producing economies during the late pre-Hispanic period from Sierras of Cordoba (Argentina, ca. 1500–360 BP) has been recently defined as a dynamic sociocultural process where a mixed foraging and cultivation economy was accompanied by a flexible and seasonally landscape-use organization. However, the seasonally-sedentary model requires the elaboration of details that has not been specified. In order to enhance the discussion, this paper presents the study carried out on faunal and botanical spring-summer indicators recovered at Boyo Paso 2, an open-air site interpreted as a residential base camp occupied during the growing season (October–April) by people with mixed foraging and cultivation economy. The major aim was to identify reliable biological indicators to assess the season of use of the site based on their ecology. The identification of Rheidae eggshells, small vertebrates, crops, and wild fruits remains, as well as the contextual evidence, supports that Boyo Paso 2 was occupied with a stronger signature in middle spring through early autumn (October–April), when planting, harvesting, and/or wild food were available around the site. Thus, it is concluded that zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical data were critical to understand the dynamic process that has underlain transition from foraging to farming in Sierras of Cordoba, providing data to improve the understanding of residential mobility in archaeological groups where the adoption of crops plants did not necessary lead to fully sedentary farming.
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Articulo
author Medina, Matías Eduardo
López, María Laura
Campos, Mailín
Saur Palmieri, Valentina
Pastor, Sebastián
author_facet Medina, Matías Eduardo
López, María Laura
Campos, Mailín
Saur Palmieri, Valentina
Pastor, Sebastián
author_sort Medina, Matías Eduardo
title Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
title_short Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
title_full Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
title_fullStr Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
title_full_unstemmed Pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : An essay from Boyo Paso 2 (ca. 900–700 BP, Sierras of Córdoba, Argentina)
title_sort pit-houses, seasonality, and subsistence resources : an essay from boyo paso 2 (ca. 900–700 bp, sierras of córdoba, argentina)
publishDate 2020
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/133298
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