Perspectivas arqueológicas para Patagonia septentrional: Sitio Cueva Huenul 1 (Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina)
Northern Neuquén Province (Pehuenches Dept., Argentina) is barely known from an archaeological perspective, though it is centrally placed in terms of several large-scale key issues in the peopling of South America: the extinction of the megafauna and its causes, early human presence, and the existen...
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| Formato: | Articulo |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
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2015
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| Acceso en línea: | http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/86111 |
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| Sumario: | Northern Neuquén Province (Pehuenches Dept., Argentina) is barely known from an archaeological perspective, though it is centrally placed in terms of several large-scale key issues in the peopling of South America: the extinction of the megafauna and its causes, early human presence, and the existence of archaeological discontinuities during the Mid-Holocene. In this paper we present the first body of paleoecological and archaeological data for Cueva Huenul 1 site, recently excavated, which offers a sedimentary sequence extending during the last of 16.000 calendar years. Initially, we present a chrono-stratigraphic frame for the site, including new tephro-chronological information. On this basis, four temporal components are defined, providing the historical scheme for the analysis of the recovered evidences that include: archaeofaunas (paleontological and archaeological), archaeobotany, lithic and ceramic technology, and rockart. These results at a site scale provide a first approach to a discussion of macro-regional processes, as well as the basis for the continuation of our research. |
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