ResumenEl análisis de la iconografía prehispánica del Noroeste Argentino ha estado centrado principalmente en las figuras de camélidos, felinos, serpentiformes y antropomorfos. El presente trabajo busca analizar la representación de un animal escaso en el repertorio iconográfico, y en consecuencia muy poco estudiado, como es la lagartija. El objetivo es elaborar una tipología que permita, en una segunda instancia, identificar patrones en su modo de representación a lo largo del tiempo. Para alcanzar este objetivo se recopilaron imágenes publicadas en la literatura arqueológica argentina. Asimismo, se analizaron piezas seleccionadas del Museo Nacional del Hombre y del Museo Etnográfico J.B. Ambrosetti. Todas las representaciones se clasificaron teniendo en cuenta sus características generales, así como las características morfológicas de las cabezas, los cuerpos, las patas y las colas, considerando los atributos biológicos de estos animales. A partir de la variabilidad observada se elaboró una propuesta tipológica para el análisis de las representaciones de lagartijas. Esto permitió ordenar la información recabada y generar una herramienta metodológica. A lo largo del trabajo se discute la utilidad y alcance de este tipo de propuestas en arqueología. AbstractThe analysis of Northwest Argentine Prehispanic iconography has been principally centered on images of camelids, felines, serpent-like animals, and anthropomorphs. This paper seeks to analyze the representation of a scarcely depicted and consequently little studied animal, that of the lizard. In this, our aim is to provide a typology that will enable us -in the near futureto identify patterns in the manner these creatures are represented across time. In this undertaking, we compiled a catalog of lizard images from the Argentine archaeological literature. Selected pieces from the Museo Nacional del Hombre and the Museo Etnográfico J.B. Ambrosetti were also considered. In turn, all of these images were classified in respect of their general characteristics, as well as according to the morphological characteristics of their heads, bodies, legs, and tails, as informed by the biological attributes of said reptiles. Based on the variability observed, a typological approach for the analysis of lizard representations was created. This allowed us to arrange the information collected, thereby providing us with a usable methodological tool. Throughout the article, we also discuss the usefulness and scope of these types of approaches in archaeology.
An accumulation of iguanian bone remains was found inside a rodent burrow in an Holocene archaeological site of the Argentine southern Puna. Characters of the preserved bones suggest that a minimum of two species of the Liolaemus genus is represented. One of them is undoubtedly attributed to the montanus group, probably L. poecilochromus or L. andinus. The finding of Liolaemus bone remains in the Argentine Puna Region represents the first record of this genus in an archaeological site of South America and suggests that specimens of at least two Liolaemus species exploited the same refuge simultaneously, including both adult and juvenile individuals.Reptile remains found in archaeological sites are relevant for understanding the relationship between indigenous groups and their environment as well as to interpret the taphonomy of microvertebrate fossil assemblages. The findings of small iguanids in South American archaeological sites are still scarce. For Argentina, Van Devender (1977) describes an isolated dentary belonging to the iguanid Leiosaurus belli (Gruta del Indio cave, eastern slopes of the Andes), whereas Mengoni Goñalons and Silveira (1976) mention the presence of indeterminate iguanids in Cueva de las Manos, Patagonian region.Alero 12 is a rockshelter located at 3980 m asl in the Puna Region, Tinogasta Department, Catamarca Province, Argentina (68 • 07 W and 26 • 55 S). This archaeological site stands out by the presence of an unusual abundance of lizard bone remains (99.2% of the total microfaunal assemblage) found in an excavated surface of 4 m 2 (Kligmann et al., 1999). The only radiocarbon date available for the site (590 ± 45 BP, LP-880) comes from the same stratigraphic
and M. CALDERARIIn order to answer the age-old question of whether a given pot was manufactured locally or elsewhere, some archaeologists have turned to geoarchaeological or bioarchaeological methods such as diatom analysis to establish potential clay sources. In this paper, we highlight the complexity of diatom analysis and illustrate how diatoms potentially coming from several sources may be introduced at different stages during the ceramic manufacturing process. Finally, we proceed to evaluate the reliability of diatom analysis as an archaeometric measurement for ceramic provenance, concluding that it may have a more limited usefulness within archaeology than its current frequency of use would indicate.
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