From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina

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The aim of this paper is to analyse continuities and changes in plant diversity and use in the southern part of the Santa Maria valley in northwest Argentina, from the 1st millennium AD up to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. Variable degrees of association between people and plants (wild, w...

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Autores principales: Petrucci, Natalia Silvana, Lema, Verónica Soledad, Pochettino, María Lelia, Palamarczuk, Valeria, Spano, Romina Clara, Tarragó, Myriam N.
Formato: Articulo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2018
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Ciencias Naturales
Argentinian Northwest
Weeds
Crops
Biocultural diversity
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/135256
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topic Ciencias Naturales
Argentinian Northwest
Weeds
Crops
Biocultural diversity
spellingShingle Ciencias Naturales
Argentinian Northwest
Weeds
Crops
Biocultural diversity
Petrucci, Natalia Silvana
Lema, Verónica Soledad
Pochettino, María Lelia
Palamarczuk, Valeria
Spano, Romina Clara
Tarragó, Myriam N.
From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Naturales
Argentinian Northwest
Weeds
Crops
Biocultural diversity
description The aim of this paper is to analyse continuities and changes in plant diversity and use in the southern part of the Santa Maria valley in northwest Argentina, from the 1st millennium AD up to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. Variable degrees of association between people and plants (wild, weedy and domesticated), as well as various management practices (gathering, cultivation, tolerance, eradication, protection and encouragement) were studied to investigate the biocultural history of this region through the analysis of plant macroremains from archaeological sites. Samples were obtained from four archaeological sites located in the valley, Rincón Chico 1, Rincón Chico 15, Soria 2 and El Colorado. As a result, we identified 628 macroremains belonging to 20 taxa and determined whether they were either wild plants, weeds or crops, related to strategies of gathering and cultivation. The results suggest that there were changes through time, with a dominance of ruderal weeds in the earliest of the archaeological sites along with a diversity of association degrees, while a division was found between wild and domesticated plants, represented by maize and <i>Prosopis</i> (<i>algarrobo</i>), in the sites of the Late period. This last scenario suggests that the growing of trees and shrubs together with crops and pasture (agroforestry), or woodland management together with grazing (silvopasture), could have been part of the past land management practices in the area. <i>Chenopodium</i> remains indicate past complexes of wild plants, weeds and crops growing together in the cultivated plots; the newly introduced crops brought from Spain, such as wheat and barley, did not replace the local plants, mainly <i>Prosopis</i> (<i>algarrobo</i>) and <i>Zea mays</i> (maize), which were still grown during early colonial times. This paper offers a diachronic perspective on plant management in a particular region, considering a plant record that is still limited, but which allows us to get a first glimpse of how plant management strategies may have changed in this part of South America.
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author Petrucci, Natalia Silvana
Lema, Verónica Soledad
Pochettino, María Lelia
Palamarczuk, Valeria
Spano, Romina Clara
Tarragó, Myriam N.
author_facet Petrucci, Natalia Silvana
Lema, Verónica Soledad
Pochettino, María Lelia
Palamarczuk, Valeria
Spano, Romina Clara
Tarragó, Myriam N.
author_sort Petrucci, Natalia Silvana
title From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
title_short From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
title_full From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
title_fullStr From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
title_full_unstemmed From weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the Santa María valley, northwest Argentina
title_sort from weeds to wheat: a diachronic approach to ancient biocultural diversity in the santa maría valley, northwest argentina
publishDate 2018
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/135256
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