The Coarse Volcanic Rock Industry at the Río Ibáñez 6 West Site, Chilean Patagonia: Assessing Geogenic Versus Anthropogenic Processes

Prentiss, Anna Marie; Barnett, Kristen; Walsh, Marianne E.

doi:10.1080/01977261.2016.1148896

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“…RI-6W's conspicuous lack of eggshell, noted by Prentiss and colleagues (2015, 2016), could be explained similarly. Like fish bone, eggshell may have been comminuted and consumed as a source of dietary calcium, a common modern practice with a deep history evidenced by studies of archaeological human coprolites (e.g., Callen 1965; Heizer and Napton 1969; Stiger 1977).…”

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“…Our excavations did not produce a radiocarbon age for this block, but available chronological data suggest that Block 1 represents the period circa 500 cal BP to the present (Prentiss et al 2015, 2016): this hypothesis is supported by the first appearance of European plant and animal taxa. This chronological block contains a high volume of cultural material (42% of all bone, 75% of macrobotanicals, and 18% of lithics), but as in Block 3, these are not evenly distributed among strata.…”

Section: Temporal Patternsmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…The stone specimen that produced a reaction to Perciformes may not have been anthropically modified (Garvey and Mena 2016; cf. Prentiss et al 2015, 2016), and even though the reaction was replicated, it is a “questionable positive”—indicating that the stone specimen “may have been used to process [fish], but that the proteins are degraded” (Garvey and Mena 2016:10). Nonetheless, the result is compelling, if difficult to interpret in the absence of fish bone and fishing gear from RI-6W and other sites in the valley.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Anna Prentiss (University of Montana) and Francisco Mena (Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia). Excavations in two sections of the site, RI-6W and RI-6E (Figure 1), produced modest stone and bone assemblages and, in the west (RI-6W), occupational surfaces with shallow hearth features (Prentiss et al 2012(Prentiss et al , 2015(Prentiss et al , 2016. Huemul and rodents dominate the faunal assemblages, and small amounts of Chenopodium sp.…”

Section: General Characteristics and Excavation Historymentioning

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Prehistoric Human Occupation of Southern Andean Forests: Evidence from Alero Largo, Aysén, Chilean Patagonia

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Use of Patagonia's forests by hunter-gatherers remains relatively poorly understood. Regional archaeological records indicate initial forest colonization during the middle Holocene, infrequent use until late prehistory, and, even then, fairly sparse occupation, likely in conjunction with use of the adjacent steppe. Recent excavations at Río Ibáñez-6 West in Aysén, Chile, provide a new perspective for understanding the prehistoric use of Patagonian forests, particularly regarding timing of the initial occupation and the potential for development of a forest-specific adaptation. We provide chronological, lithic, archaeofaunal, and macrobotanical data that show use of the Ibáñez River valley at least a millennium earlier than previously documented. These data indicate increased dietary breadth in late prehistory, supporting the established hypothesis that the valley became a closed system at that time. From our data we develop hypotheses regarding prehistoric forest use in Aysén that have implications for the broader understanding of the suitability of the forest for prehistoric human foragers.

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“…Si bien aún no se ha generalizado en la comunidad arqueológica el reconocimiento de que los procesos tafonómicos pueden reproducir algunos de los tipos del repertorio tecnológico (e.g. Boëda et al, 2016;Fariña et al, 2014;Prentiss et al, 2016), el problema del solapamiento morfológico entre productos culturales y naturales que tomara popularidad con la discusión de los eolitos europeos ha promovido diferentes estrategias para su abordaje. Una aproximación al tema ha sido la realización de test ciegos entre especialistas en tecnología lítica para definir el origen cultural o natural de un conjunto lítico (Garvey y Mena, 2015).…”

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Aportes de la tafonomía actualística al estudio arqueológico de los pseudoartefactos

Borrazzo

2020

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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El creciente interés por comprender y cuantificar los efectos de los procesos posdepositacionales en la formación de los conjuntos líticos ha promovido la aplicación de abordajes tafonómicos que permitieron discutir el origen de patrones que a priori son considerados conductuales (tecnológicos, funcionales). Asimismo, esas aproximaciones tafonómicas mostraron que los diferentes contextos ambientales de una región (con su particular combinación de agentes y procesos) poseen efectos variables sobre los conjuntos líticos. Una aproximación tafonómica al entorno y su dinámica a escala local y regional permite estimar las características morfológicas y distribucionales del ruido tafonómico de fondo lítico (pseudoartefactos). En otras palabras, la incorporación sistemática de la tafonomía actualística -con sus componentes naturalista y experimental- a la investigación arqueológica contribuye a la generación de marcos de referencia que permiten refinar nuestras interpretaciones del registro lítico. Aquí se sintetizan algunos de los resultados obtenidos de la aplicación de este abordaje al estudio del sitio Casa de Piedra de Roselló (Chubut, Argentina). Se analizan y comparan los atributos morfométricos de una muestra experimental y un conjunto lítico procedente de la superficie del talud del sitio. Se concluye que el ruido tafonómico de fondo puede sobredimensionar el aporte de la materia prima local al conjunto lítico del sitio.

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Expanding the Scope of Actualistic Taphonomy in Archaeological Research

Borrazzo

2019

Topics in Geobiology

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The Coarse Volcanic Rock Industry at the Río Ibáñez 6 West Site, Chilean Patagonia: Assessing Geogenic Versus Anthropogenic Processes

Cited by 4 publications

References 20 publications

Prehistoric Human Occupation of Southern Andean Forests: Evidence from Alero Largo, Aysén, Chilean Patagonia

Prehistoric Human Occupation of Southern Andean Forests: Evidence from Alero Largo, Aysén, Chilean Patagonia

Aportes de la tafonomía actualística al estudio arqueológico de los pseudoartefactos

Expanding the Scope of Actualistic Taphonomy in Archaeological Research

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