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El volumen 12 del Anuario de Arqueología presenta algunas particularidades especiales. Además de los artículos libres recibidos regularmente por la revista, este número incorpora un Dossier temático donde se resalta el potencial informativo que posee la aplicación de distintos métodos arqueométricos en la investigación sobre cerámica. Los trabajos que forman parte de este Dossier fueron expuestos en el simposio titulado “Aproximaciones arqueométricas para el estudio de la cerámica arqueológica”, coordinado por Flavia Ottalagano y Verónica Schuster y que contó con la relatoría de Verónica J. Acevedo. El mismo tuvo lugar en el marco del XX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Argentina, realizado en la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina, entre los días 15 al 19 de julio del 2019. Este Dossier está conformado por los trabajos de Acevedo et al., Bellelli et al., Pérez, Colobig et al., Schuster et al. y Soto. Por otra parte, este volumen incluye también la conferencia brindada por Daniel Loponte cuya temática versa sobre la relevancia que tienen los análisis isotópicos para el estudio de la dieta, particularmente en el área Nordeste de Argentina. Esta conferencia formó parte de las V Jornadas Rosarinas de Arqueología, evento que se desarrolló entre los días 6 al 8 de junio del 2018. Finalmente, este número incorpora, por primera vez en la trayectoria de la revista, una sección especial dedicada a la publicación de Resúmenes de Tesinas, de defensa reciente. Dichos resúmenes corresponden a Tesinas de Licenciatura en Antropología (orientación arqueológica), pertenecientes a la Escuela de Antropología, Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Invitamos a todos a leer su contenido, sin antes agradecer a aquellos colegas que, ya sea como autores o evaluadores, hicieron posible la concreción de este valioso número para el Anuario de Arqueología.

En esta tesina, me propuse indagar en la conformación delMuseo del Instituto de Antropología de la Universidad Nacionaldel Litoral (UNL) y su aporte a la profesionalización de ladisciplina en Rosario. Mi interés se centró en las expedicionesarqueológicas a los sitios de “El Alamito” (Provincia deCatamarca), organizadas en los años 1957 y 1958. Lainvestigación se basó en el abordaje socio-antropológico de uncuerpo documental vinculado con esas expediciones hallado enel Museo, al que definí como “Fondo documental El Alamito”.Realicé una articulación con entrevistas y un relevamientobibliográfico general conjugando, como dice Garbulsky, unantropoanálisis (Garbulsky, 2000). Para esto, me propuseuna serie de objetivos específicos de trabajo entre los que seencontraban caracterizar el período histórico y los mecanismosque intervinieron en la conformación del actual Museo de laEscuela de Antropología, y dar cuenta de las especificidades delproceso de profesionalización de la antropología a nivel local enla ciudad de Rosario

This paper presents the first results of studies of fatty acids absorbed in archaeological ceramics low Sarmiento sites located in the Chubut southern - center province. The analysis carried out on ten ceramic samples from eight archaeological sites that were processed from the combined use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry is presented. The results are discussed taking into account local resources potentially available for processing and / or consumption such technology. Also, emphasis will be placed on the methodological advantages and limitations inherent in the identification and determination of the various species and resources from samples of archaeological ceramics.

This paper proposes the study of two specific sites of the central-eastern sector of the province of Corrientes, Itá Pucú and Three Hills, characterized by its location at high altitudes within the framework of an evenly plain landscape. Apply the provided designs for the archaeology of the landscape, mainly those related to visibility, visibility and visual control. Run through computer programs tested its visibility on the surrounding environment, using calculating Visual basins and the point of the observer. Postulated that the studied sites could have functioned as “milestones”, as relating space to get guidance in the landscape, as indicators of roads and boundaries, or boundaries between groups that inhabited this area in the past.

Los paisajes, entendidos como espacios subjetivos, seencuentran significativamente constituidos. Las formas queadquieren y las transformaciones que experimentan respondena un complejo entramado conformado por diversos procesossociohistóricos que, a su vez, contribuyen a reproducir. Suselementos, en tanto parte de un orden material históricamenteconformado, emergen en el presente como marcas materiales apartir de las cuales comprender las relaciones sociales que lesdieron forma.

Some of the archaeological collections of important museums of the Argentine Republic have been extensively researched by the scientific community, mainly in relation to their material valuation as evidence of the past occupation of human groups. However, the studies of this type of collections in the local museums of the Buenos Aires province have been scarcely developed. The collections can be approached as historical archives, because their information on the historiographic contextualization at the moment of their conformation; in this sense, it is not possible to consider the collection without the figure of the subject that shaped it and his agency capacity (i.e. collectors, hobbyists, archaeologists, historians, among others). The main objective of this paper is to analyze the stories about the process of creating the collections of the Archaeological Museum of Chasicó, located in the Estancia Don Natalio, Tornquist district, province of Buenos Aires. It should be noted that this institution has been declared a municipal historical site since 2006, and has an important number of pre-Hispanic and historical paleontological and archaeological pieces corresponding to the human groups that inhabited the southern sector of the Area Ecotonal Húmedo Seca Pampeana. Under this framework, we record the oral memory of the graduate Nora Cinquini, tutor of the the museum´collections as a method. In this way, memory is understood as a form of expression of identity, which allows to consider the construction processes that identify a community and its link with the past. The present work seeks to investigate the usefulness, the academic value and the contributions generated by the historiographic studies in order to know the origin of the museum archaeological collections – and to understand the identity processes that emerge from this type of institution.

Between 1885 and 1930, after the military campaigns against the indigenous peoples, the north of the current province of La Pampa began to be occupied by settlements related to rural exploitation: estancias, colonies, towns and commercial settlements. Since 2008 we are studying this problem that is part of the so-called rural archeology. In this paper we will present the preliminary advances in the study of the archeological site “La Estrella” (1884-1946) located in the vicinity of Parera (Department of Rancul, province of La Pampa). This site is a pulpería that was at an intersection of roads that linked it with various types of settlements (ranches, stalls and other stores) forming a constituent part of the recent rural landscape. In the 2018 archeological campaign the extension of the site`s area was determined, the surface materials were systematically collected and 14 surveys diggings were made. This paper presents the analysis of historical maps through the GIS, the field methodology used and the site formation processes that affected the materials recovered in the surveys diggings. 

Archaeometric studies were carried out involving the application of thermoanalytical techniques and scanning electron microscopy on different bone pieces recovered from the site of Boca de Lega (BL), Province of Santa Fe, Argentina. The osteoarchaeological material recovered from BL exhibits a low mechanical integrity and a superficial morphology promoted from the accumulation of sedimentary deposits, re-deposits and the erosion of fluvial environment. There were also signals of possible thermo-alteration. The first archaeometric studies on the so called BL21 element, allowed us to determine the existence of anthropic actions of past societies. Continuing with these studies in a deeper mode, nowadays, progress was made in the analysis of other bone elements from BL, called BL07, BL26 and BL49, through new archaeometric studies. These involved analytical techniques such as differential thermal analysis, thermogrammetry and scanning electron microscopy with dispersive energy microanalysis. The joint use of these experimental techniques allowed us to identify the high incidence of edaphic components in the samples as well as the record of a heating that was superior to 673K / 400 ° C. By virtue of the results obtained, it was possible to reconfirm the human action as the highly probable original factor of previously observed thermo-alteration. 

The purpose of this work is to address the main explanatory theories about rock art, explaining the terminologies, objectives and work methodology of the theoretical segments addressed. Within this context the work consisted of a bibliographical and documentary survey, associated to a field research carried out in Serra da Capivara National Park, in the state of Piauí, Brazil. The main justification for the elaboration of this work is the need to discuss the multiple visions present in the study of rock art, citing the authors and theoretical and methodological approaches, due to the degree of specialization and diversification of the present studies, taking into account some questions that will be discussed in the course of this article. We hope to contribute to a discussion about the multiple perspectives of analyzing rock art, noting that different views can provide a holistic analysis of rock works.  

This paper deals with firearms that were employed by the Argentine army in frontier warfare between 1869 and 1877. Documentary information and archaeological assemblages from two contemporary military frontier facilities –Fort General Paz and Fortín Algarrobos– are combined to characterize the armament in service during those years. This was a crucial period, during which a process of modernization and standardization of the army’s weaponry started, centered on the incorporation of Remington single-shot breech-loading rifles and carbines. However, the archaeological record shows that this process was slow and that an astonishing variety of older firearms (flintlocks, percussion smoothbores and rifles) remained in service, causing logistic and operative problems. The paper then discusses the impact of the incorporation of the Remington guns on frontier warfare, critiquing commonly held determinist characterizations, and placing the Remington’s effect into a broader political and economic context