Locational structure of archeological underground storage pits in northwest Córdoba, Argentina.

Laguens, Andrés

doi:10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.1993.109158

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“…(Riccardi, ), but with reverse implications: in province of Córdoba, it was characterized by aridification, arid/semi‐arid cold conditions, and decrease in rainfall and water deficit. Laguens and Bonnin () mentioned that this change coincided with significant deterioration of the indigenous system: pre‐existing crisis of indigenous societies, previous to the Spanish conquest, was characterized by population stress produced by decrease of environmental sustainability (Laguens, ). The archaeological record suggests that, before the Spanish conquest, human societies would have been subject to a number of changes or pressures of environment (gradual aridity product of Little Ice Age), demographic (population growth), and social pressures (greater circumscription and nucleation).…”

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“…Archaeological record allows us to infer an increasing process of regional differentiation at around 2000–1500 years BP., probably due to diverse adaptations to the environment made by these populations and development of different technological styles. This process led to political autonomy and identity associated with different geopolitical units, just as it can be deduced from analysis of the ethnohistorical documentation of the 16th and 17th centuries (Laguens, , ).…”

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“…In the central region of Argentina this episode was not homogeneous, but consisted of two cold pulses separated by an intervening period of benign weather conditions, similar to today, and even a bit more humid (Cioccale, ). The first pulse occurred between the early 15th and late 16th century, coinciding with a decline in indigenous system conditions characterized by population stress produced by a decrease in environmental sustainability (Laguens, ). The second pulse would have occurred since the beginning of the 18th and 19th centuries.…”

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Diet and Oral Health of Populations that Inhabited Central Argentina (Córdoba Province) during Late Holocene

Fabra

González

2012

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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The aim of this work is to study, from a bioarchaeological perspective, the diet and oral health of the populations that inhabited Central Argentina in two periods which would reflect changes in subsistence strategies: earlier late Holocene (ca. 2500-1500 years BP) and later late Holocene (ca.1500-400 years BP). The sample is composed by 83 adult individuals from 47 archaeological sites. We considered five non-specific indicators of stress, infectious and degenerative diseases: hypoplasia of dental enamel, dental caries, abscesses, antemortem teeth loss, and calculus. We also considered hypercementosis, dens in dens, and agenesis. We test intraobserver error by means of intraclass correlation coefficient and analysis of variance of repeated measures. We calculated prevalence by sex, age, geographic subregion, and chronological period. We applied Chi-square (X 2 ) to test statistical significance of observed differences. Considering the sample as a whole, low prevalence of dental caries (10.27%), abscesses (16.52%), and hypoplasia (10.84%) are coincident with values observed for populations with mixed or hunter-gathering subsistence strategy. In later late Holocene, high incidence of caries should be considered as indicator of consumption of C4 vegetables or other carbohydrate-rich vegetables, such as legumes of Prosopis sp. Also, moderate values of dental enamel hypoplasia should be related with metabolic-systemic stress episodes. Summarizing, these results are coincident with isotopic, archaeological, and ethnohistorical evidences which suggest climatic, social, and demographic pressures that might have affected the lifestyle of these populations before the Spanish conquest.

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Diet and Oral Health of Populations that Inhabited Central Argentina (Córdoba Province) during Late Holocene

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González

2012

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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“…Bossard 2019;Deffressigne 2012;Alonso 2020a, 2020b) and are also known from North and South America (e.g. DeBoer 1988;Laguens 1993) and from Africa (e.g. Gronenborn 1997).…”

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Voluminous Evidence for an Elusive Period: Storage Pits and Surplus from Middle Chalcolithic Anatolia

Gerritsen

2021

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…In places subject to war or unstable political conditions, the possibility of hiding grain reserves underground greatly increases the appeal of airtight pits. Static storage practices are also typical of seasonally abandoned settlements, especially in contexts were residential mobility is common (DeBoer 1988;Smith, cited in Gronenborn 1997, p. 435;Kunz 2004;Ward 1985), or in seasonally occupied gathering places (similar to those described by Laguens 1993). Another form of static storage concerns the safe keeping of seed corn until the next sowing.…”

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Understanding Pit Sites: Storage, Surplus and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Western Europe

Jiménez-Jáimez

Padilla

2019

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The importance of pits for archaeological inference can hardly be overstated, given their virtual omnipresence in the archaeological record. In Prehistoric Europe pits occasionally form large concentrations known as 'pit sites', where they are the most visible, sometimes the sole, remnants of past human activity. If we follow the generally accepted view of pits as grain storage containers, how can we interpret the social role played by places comprising hundreds or even thousands of pits? This paper is an attempt to shed light on this topic by summarising and critically analysing much of the current knowledge on storage of grain in non-industrial societies. We will start by gathering relevant and up-to-date experimental, ethnographic and historical data about the challenges that the storage of grain poses and how pits may have helped Prehistoric communities to overcome them. This will be followed by a discussion of their advantages and disadvantages relative to other methods: why would anybody use airtight pits instead of, for instance, weather-proofed raised granaries? Next, we will undertake an examination of the social and economic contexts in which storage pits are an effective solution as opposed to those in which their performance is far from optimal. The conclusions drawn will serve as a background against which to evaluate current interpretations concerning three selected case studies in Prehistoric Western Europe.

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Locational structure of archeological underground storage pits in northwest Córdoba, Argentina.

Cited by 9 publications

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Diet and Oral Health of Populations that Inhabited Central Argentina (Córdoba Province) during Late Holocene

Diet and Oral Health of Populations that Inhabited Central Argentina (Córdoba Province) during Late Holocene

Voluminous Evidence for an Elusive Period: Storage Pits and Surplus from Middle Chalcolithic Anatolia

Understanding Pit Sites: Storage, Surplus and Social Complexity in Prehistoric Western Europe

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