Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina

Animal bones remains are usual parts of the archaeological records of any chronology and its study is important to all investigation. It’s well known that there are different processes that can modify the cultural information that bones can provide, but in archaeology of historical moments these pro...

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Autores principales: Sartori, Julieta, Colasurdo, M. Belén, Escudero, Sandra
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Publicado: Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2015
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spelling I28-R145-1818_oai2025-11-17 Sartori, Julieta Colasurdo, M. Belén Escudero, Sandra 2015-10-30 Animal bones remains are usual parts of the archaeological records of any chronology and its study is important to all investigation. It’s well known that there are different processes that can modify the cultural information that bones can provide, but in archaeology of historical moments these processes are ignored when archaeofaunal remains are analyzed. When doing an integral research, it is necessary to take into account that zooarchaeology shares methods and common problems in any given historical time. Nevertheless, the tendency in historical zooarchaeology in general (and in Argentina particularly) was that taphonomy processes can were ignored, which produced misleaded or incomplete  interpretations of his-torical remains. Some aspects connecting with natural and cultural process that affect the zooarchaeology-cal remains of historical sites are presented in this paper, in order to provide more accurate interpretations about the past human behavior. Los restos óseos de animales conforman una parte habitual del registro de sitios arqueológicos de cualquier cronología, y su estudio es relevante para múltiples intereses de investigación. Si bien es sabido que existe una variedad de procesos que tienen el potencial de alterar u obliterar la información cultural que pudieren contener los materiales óseos, en la arqueología de momentos históricos muchas veces estos procesos son dejados de lado a la hora de analizar los restos arqueofaunísticos. Se considera que la zooarqueología, más allá del período temporal del que se ocupe comparte métodos y problemáticas que deben ser abordadas en toda investigación para poder dar una mirada integral del registro que estudia. Sin embargo en zooarqueología histórica la tendencia general (y particularmente en Argentina) es la de ignorar la posibilidad de sesgos introducidos por procesos tafonómicos, lo que conlleva un potencial considerable para interpretaciones erróneas o al menos incompletas de conjuntos históricos. Se presentan aquí algunos aspectos vinculados a los factores naturales y culturales que modelan conjuntos zooarqueológicos históricos, los cuales constituyen una contribución importante a la hora de hacer más y mejores interpretaciones acerca de las acciones humanas del pasado. application/pdf https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/1818 10.34096/arqueologia.t18.n0.1818 spa Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/1818/1702 Arqueología; Vol. 18 (2012); 267-277 Arqueología; Vol. 18 (2012); 267-277 1853-8126 0327-5159 historical zooarchaeology taphonomy Argentina zooarqueología histórica tafonomía Argentina Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina Zooarqueología histórica: la necesidad de un enfoque tafonómico integral en Argentina info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=arqueo&d=1818_oai
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topic historical zooarchaeology
taphonomy
Argentina
zooarqueología histórica
tafonomía
Argentina
spellingShingle historical zooarchaeology
taphonomy
Argentina
zooarqueología histórica
tafonomía
Argentina
Sartori, Julieta
Colasurdo, M. Belén
Escudero, Sandra
Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
topic_facet historical zooarchaeology
taphonomy
Argentina
zooarqueología histórica
tafonomía
Argentina
description Animal bones remains are usual parts of the archaeological records of any chronology and its study is important to all investigation. It’s well known that there are different processes that can modify the cultural information that bones can provide, but in archaeology of historical moments these processes are ignored when archaeofaunal remains are analyzed. When doing an integral research, it is necessary to take into account that zooarchaeology shares methods and common problems in any given historical time. Nevertheless, the tendency in historical zooarchaeology in general (and in Argentina particularly) was that taphonomy processes can were ignored, which produced misleaded or incomplete  interpretations of his-torical remains. Some aspects connecting with natural and cultural process that affect the zooarchaeology-cal remains of historical sites are presented in this paper, in order to provide more accurate interpretations about the past human behavior.
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author Sartori, Julieta
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title Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
title_short Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
title_full Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
title_fullStr Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Historical zooarchaeology: The need of a comprehensive taphonomic approach in Argentina
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publisher Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
publishDate 2015
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