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- Title
Las palas/azadas y/o cuñas líticas de cerro El Peceño (sur de Mendoza): una primera aproximación tecnológica.
- Authors
Salgán, María Laura; Pompei, María de la Paz
- Abstract
This paper presents an advance of the research carried out in the area where the obsidian source El Peceño is located, south of Mendoza (Argentina). In this work, we analyze a first technological approach of a set of lithic tools with morphology similar to shovels/hoes and/or lithic wedges, raw material available in the place. We registered N = 17 artifacts worked on sandstone and pelite, whose spatial distribution coincides with the quarry-workshop areas of obsidian. Techno-typological studies show that human groups selected large flakes to manufacture marginal unifacial artifacts and, to a lesser extent, bifacial, with irregular circular geometric morphology. The results allow us to inquire about their presence in the regional archaeological record and, in particular, in a site for raw material procurement. The presence of the different stages of reduction suggests that their production and discarding took place in El Peceño; it is proposed that their function could be linked to obsidian procurement tasks.
- Subjects
MENDOZA (Argentina); OBSIDIAN; RAW materials; STONE implements; SANDSTONE; SHOVELS; GRAVETTIAN culture
- Publication
Revista del Museo de Antropología, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 1, p223
- ISSN
1852-060X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31048/1852.4826.v13.n1.24000