Latin American Antiquity最新文献

{"title":"Análisis tecnológicos y distribucionales de material lítico del sitio Pago Lindo (Departamento de Tacuarembó, Uruguay)","authors":"Nicolás Gazzán, Camila Gianotti, Mariano Bonomo","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Este trabajo se focaliza en el análisis espacial intrasitio del material lítico procedente de un montículo de tierra del sitio arqueológico Pago Lindo (Departamento de Tacuarembó, Uruguay). Se realizaron análisis tecnológicos y distribucionales (vecino más cercano, K de Ripley y modelos kernel) que permitieron caracterizar distintas fases de ocupación y uso del espacio entre 3021 ± 32 y 690 ± 35 años 14C aP. Se reconoció una tecnología predominantemente expeditiva en la que no se observaron cambios significativos a través del tiempo. Los resultados de los análisis distribucionales muestran patrones heterogéneos que responden al uso diferencial del espacio en la estructura monticular. Los patrones agrupados, observados principalmente en microlascas, permitieron identificar sectores donde se localizaron espacios domésticos cuya ocupación y gestión de residuos contribuyó al crecimiento del montículo. También se reconocieron sectores donde las agrupaciones del material lítico tienden principalmente a la aleatoriedad, y que corresponden a episodios constructivos planificados. Esto es congruente con el modelo de crecimiento espaciotemporal discontinuo de las estructuras monticulares —basado en la alternancia de momentos de abandono y momentos de uso— pero también con episodios constructivos intencionales.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41501907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Quotidian: An Analysis of Plain-Weave Textiles at Cerro de Oro, Peru, during the Sixth to Tenth Centuries","authors":"Francesca Fernandini Parodi, Rosa María Varillas","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Andean prehispanic textiles are renown for being complex masterpieces made with labor-intensive techniques and high-quality raw materials. Nevertheless, the vast majority of textiles, those used by the population at large, were plain, simple, and without any decoration. We study a sample composed of the most common textiles used by people living at Cerro de Oro in the Cañete Valley, Peru. Our analysis focuses on fiber selection, yarn thickness, and the presence of errors throughout the process of weaving. We discuss relevant aspects of the social process of textile production, such as the role played by plain-weave textiles in different contexts, their use in different types of garments, and the varied ways community members, with particular skill levels, participated in clothing the living and the dead at Cerro de Oro.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44385153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare. Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Louisville, and Editorial de la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. vi + 300 pp. $75.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-64642-099-5.","authors":"P. Roscoe","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.19","url":null,"abstract":"These discussions are supported by a summary of the salient evidence and the bibliographic sources from which it is drawn. Most of this is admirably up to date, and collectively it provides a panoramic vision of Andean prehistory. The writing is clear and free of jargon. Abundant illustrations accompany each case study and offer visual support for Tantaleán’s text. The book is perhaps best suited for those working outside the Andes or for nonspecialists. It would also be appropriate for undergraduates and for classes in comparative civilizations. However, it may disappoint investigators involved in Andean archaeology. Each of the seven cases treated in the volume is already well known, and Tantaleán offers few original observations. Understandably, he relies heavily on the archaeologists who worked most recently at each site. For example, his treatment of Caral summarizes the perspective of Ruth Shady, and the discussion of Sechín recapitulates the conclusions of Shelia and Tom Pozorski. Tantaleán rarely explores conclusions that are currently under debate or that are favored by the primary investigators but are not supported by evidence existing at the present time. In his desire to discuss social and political relations, Tantaleán frequently relies on positions that have yet to be confirmed with fieldwork. It is worth noting that in Jeffrey Quilter’s recent synthesis of Andean prehistory, the first two of Tantaleán’s examples—Caral and Sechín—are not considered to be states, and even Moche is argued to be problematic in this regard. Tantaleán’s characterization of Wari as the capital of an empire likewise remains a subject of contention among specialists. Tantaleán states that the main purpose of this volume is to highlight that the formation of each state generated a series of distinctive characteristics but also shared some common features. Many of the unique elements singled out by Tantaleán are far from surprising. For example, he found that states developed in contrasting geographic settings, thus suggesting that environmental determinism is not a crucial factor in the appearance of states. Moreover, he notes that, as would be expected, material culture varies in relationship to the available resources in each location, such as the Chimu culture’s preference for adobe architecture while the highland Wari capital is dominated by stone constructions. Tantaleán’s conclusions regarding shared features between the states are more interesting. He argues that the population of most Andean states was dispersed in villages and towns, although most had an urban center serving as its capital. The size and organization of these cities varied widely. Tantaleán also concludes that prehispanic Andean social practices did not clearly differentiate between politics and religion and that this linkage characterized Andean states of different ages and geographic locations. Related to this, every Andean state conducted massive rituals outdoors in large plazas ","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49240075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Ancient Andean States: Political Landscapes in Pre-Hispanic Peru. Henry Tantaleán. 2021. Routledge, New York. xiii + 282 pp. $49.95 (paper), ISBN 9781138097636.","authors":"R. Burger","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.18","url":null,"abstract":"asentamiento antes y durante época Inca en la zona circumtiticaca, dando cuenta de la variabilidad de las estrategias incaicas de dominio en la región. En relación a los mecanismos específicos de integración social, Pavlovic et al., muestran cómo los incas manejaron la integración social de una gran variedad de grupos locales en el valle del Aconcagua a través de ceremonias de comensalidad y rituales realizados en cumbres de montañas. Sin embargo, como da cuenta el capítulo de José L. Martínez, elementos utilizados en ceremonias de comensalidad incaica como los keros, podían trascender en su función y ser culturalmente apropiados por elites aimaras en asociación a las chullpas, con el fin de reforzar sus relaciones de poder dentro del imperio. Y continuando con el caso de las chullpas, Axel Nielsen relata cómo su uso y funcionalidad continuó durante la época incaica en la zona de Lípez, dando cuenta del mantenimiento de costumbres y simbolismo de los ayllus locales. Este libro es un gran aporte para “repensar” el estado Inca tanto en el Qullasuyu, como también a nivel de su estructura imperial global. Su principal contribución es plantearnos una serie de interrogantes para el futuro, en donde el gran desafío es generar modelos más amplios que busquen comprender los mecanismos de expansión incaicos bajo una perspectiva que trascienda el valle o la localidad de estudio. Si bien cada vez conocemos más acerca de la gran diversidad de modos de acción incaicos en lo económico, político y ritual, las fronteras nacionales actuales marcan mucho las diferencias de criterio y paradigmas de investigación aplicados. Otro tema relevante es que se aprecia cada vez con mayor claridad que la ocupación incaica inicial de este territorio se dio hacia comienzos del siglo quince, y esto debe llevarnos a replantear la linealidad de los modelos tradicionales de expansión imperial a partir del Cusco. Y para finalizar, queda mucho más por explorar en cuanto a la diversidad de respuestas locales y agencia respecto de la dominación incaica, entendiendo también cómo estas situaciones y mecanismos se proyectan en la nueva relación de dominación con el imperio español.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44960723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Blunt Force Trauma Analysis of Interpersonal Violence in Northern Patagonia and Southern Pampa (Argentina): An Experimental Perspective","authors":"F. Otero, M. Béguelin, Florencia Gordón","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article evaluates the level of interpersonal violence among human groups that inhabited northern Patagonia and southern Pampa (Argentina) during the Middle and Late Holocene, especially before contact with Europeans. We analyzed a particular type of trauma—blunt force trauma—in skull samples from several archaeological localities and compared our outcomes with those of a previous experimental work. The results agree with what is expected for small-scale societies within the regional historical and archaeological framework. The recorded percentages show a diachronic increase toward higher frequencies of this injury among males than among females and subadults, but the differences are not statistically significant. Generally, the levels of violence remained relatively constant during the period studied. Most of the injuries reflect low levels of damage, which allows us to hypothesize that the objects causing the injuries would be elements of everyday life. A smaller proportion show significant bone alteration that could be associated with weapons manufactured to exert violence or hunt animals.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45688978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ancient Human Mitogenome of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego): An Argentine Collaborative Project","authors":"Valeria Arencibia, M. Muñoz Hidalgo, Cristian M Crespo, L. Maldonado, G. Lichtenstein, L. Kamenetzky, Pablo Vera, A. Zangrando, Augusto Tessone, S. Avena, V. Lia, A. Puebla, C. Dejean","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.13","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The increasing use of massively parallel sequencing in the study of current and ancient human populations has enabled new approaches to bioanthropological and archaeological issues; however, its application to archaeological samples requires the use of technologies that are not easily accessible outside US and European research centers. To obtain an ancient mitogenome in Argentina, several institutions collaborated to apply massively parallel sequencing and bioinformatic methodologies on an enriched ancient DNA library of an individual from the Beagle Channel (dated 1504 ± 46 years BP), a region of particular interest for this line of inquiry. Phylogenetic reconstruction showed a close relationship with a Yamana from Navarino Island and an individual from Hoste Island (Chilean Antarctic Province): the three shared an ancestor who lived between 203 and 4,439 years ago. These three have mutations reported only for current and ancient individuals from the Beagle Channel, and their relationship with the rest of the D1g sub-haplogroups is unclear. The results obtained here are consistent with the reduction of mobility in the Fuegian archipelago around 4500 years BP that has been proposed based on archaeological evidence.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43150087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Port by Any Other Name: A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of Ancient Infrastructural Landscapes and Settlement Organization at Macurany, Brazil","authors":"M. G. Ellis, Anna T. Browne Ribeiro, M. Carvalho, C. Fisher","doi":"10.1017/laq.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Complex human–environmental processes form identifiable, lasting features on the landscape that can illuminate past human behavior and human–environment interactions. We examine the anthropogenic landscape of the ancient port of Macurany, located along the middle Amazon River in Parintins, Brazil, and identify four classes of anthropogenic landscape features at the site: wharfs, middens, terra preta (dark or black earths), and cultural forests. Middens, terra preta, and cultural forests have been found at archaeological sites in regions surrounding Macurany, but wharfs have not previously been reported in Amazonian contexts predating European contact. Taken together, these features are clearly the result of anthropogenesis and represent a range of subsistence, settlement, and infrastructure-building activities pointing to an ancient society that was actively engaged in modifying the surrounding landscape for purposes beyond settlement and subsistence. Evidence for a permanent, extensive, continuously settled society practicing intensive landscape engineering in this region of Amazonia reinforces findings of dense habitation, infrastructure, and early urbanization in Amazonia prior to European contact. This research helps expand our understanding of human–environment interactions, landscape formation processes, and settlement organization in ancient Amazonia.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46919665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evidencia arqueométrica del uso del manganeso en artefactos asociados a la cultura Chinchorro","authors":"Bernardo Arriaza, J. P. Ogalde, Sebastián Gutiérrez, José Cárcamo, Vivien G. Standen, Leonardo Figueroa Tagle","doi":"10.1017/laq.2022.102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2022.102","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Se presentan los resultados de fluorescencia de rayos-X realizados a 12 artefactos provenientes de contextos funerarios Chinchorro, Arica, norte de Chile, focalizándose la discusión en el manganeso (Mn). La muestra con mayor concentración de Mn fue analizada con espectrometría Raman, para avanzar en la identificación estructural del cromóforo negro correspondiente. Todos los artefactos dieron positivo para la presencia de Mn con un rango de 1,11%-63,66%, considerándose antrópico sobre 2% (83,33% del total) y el pigmento analizado fue identificado como criptomelano y goetita.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41407365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collecting “Remembrances of these Isles”: Tracing the Post-1880 History of a Taíno Cotton Cemí in the Dominican Republic and Italy","authors":"J. Ostapkowicz, Cecilia Pennacini","doi":"10.1017/laq.2022.106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2022.106","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article charts the collection history of the only surviving precolumbian cotton reliquary (cemí) from the Dominican Republic, establishing its provenance from the mid-nineteenth century through a previously unpublished manuscript written by the collector, Rodolfo Domingo Cambiaso Sosa, and using archival documents in Italy. The cemí, found in a cave in the southwest of the country near the town of Petitrou (Enriquillo), was purchased in 1882 by Admiral Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Cambiaso, one of the founders of the Dominican Navy. It emerged in international publications commemorating the quadricentennial of the Spanish–Indigenous encounter in 1892 and shortly thereafter was sent to Genoa, Italy. It entered the collections of Turin's Royal Museum of Antiquities in 1928 before being passed to the newly established Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography. It was rediscovered by Dominican scholars in the 1970s and has inspired numerous investigations since, including renewed collaborative links between the Dominican Republic and Italy.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44969302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Poblamiento litoral de los archipiélagos patagónicos septentrionales: Cronología y estratigrafía de Puente Quilo-1, Isla Grande de Chiloé, Chile","authors":"Simón Sierralta Navarro, Ayelén Delgado Orellana, Sandra Rebolledo Canales, C. Cortés Rodríguez, Hugo Carrión Méndez, Daniel Hernández Castillo, Rolando González Rojas, Cristian Dávila Contreras, Helga Inostroza Rojas, Constanza Roa Solís","doi":"10.1017/laq.2022.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/laq.2022.93","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Los modos de vida marítimos que caracterizaron a los archipiélagos occidentales de Patagonia comenzaron su desarrollo a mediados del Holoceno medio. El registro arqueológico sugiere posibles orígenes tanto en el extremo sur como en el extremo norte del territorio insular. La propuesta de un núcleo ecotonal septentrional de maritización se fundamentó en el hallazgo de sitios con tempranas ocupaciones de especialización litoral, entre los que destacó el conchal de Puente Quilo-1. Este artículo presenta resultados de nuevas excavaciones realizadas con el objeto de precisar su cronología, historia ocupacional y relevancia en la comprensión del proceso de maritización y colonización de los archipiélagos. A través de su integración con investigaciones previas en el sitio, los nuevos datos muestran una secuencia de reocupación estrechamente ligada a cambios en el paisaje producto de la variación en los niveles marinos, y caracterizan un campamento con diversidad funcional y diferenciación de áreas de actividad, inserto en un contexto de expansión regional de grupos cazadores-recolectores marinos. Los atributos culturales y su cronología permiten robustecer la hipótesis de un núcleo de maritización en el norte de la franja archipelágica.","PeriodicalId":17968,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41349108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}