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This essay raises somequestions about the reference of rock art and its epistemic model. It confers on it important heuristic content and examines it in relation to the lacanian approach to signifiers. He tries to approach the phenomenology of this art with analytical instruments that he estimates can not be left out even in the face of such elusive manifestations as rock art. 

Zooarchaeology, understood as the study of the relationships that animals have had with human populations of the past and about the multiplicity of roles they have fulfilled in human cultural systems, is a discipline that has experienced great national and international development in recent decades. The use of methods of anatomical and taxonomic quantification, and new methodologies and techniques such as isotopic and molecular analysis, has provided new perspectives for zooarchaeological research. However, we believe that the information these methodologies produce, and zooarchaeology in general, are often not adequately represented in museum institutions. These institutions mediate the link between society and its past through the construction of an institutional narrative that accompanies the archaeological collections on display. Here we research different museums of the Province of Buenos Aires and consider that the zooarchaeological record exhibition is usually subordinated to other archaeological collections (i.e. ceramics, lithic instruments), receiving a peripheral place within the institutional discourse. Therefore, we explore the diverse information that zooarchaeological samples can offer and generate proposals for their dissemination, emphasizing the importance of the protection and conservation of this heritage.

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

In this work, a preliminary analysis of a set of ceramic spindle whorls (counter weights for spinning tasks), from various museological reservoirs of the province of Córdoba, is carried out. Techno-functional characteristics from measurable variables and it is investigated in the production possibilities that these artifacts admit, are considered. Most of them were produced coming from sherds from different ceramic containers, possibly discarded by breakages. This form of production, through recycling, involved widespread practice at the regional level, however, in specific finding and bounded spatiality limited we can see another type of spindle whorls, generally decorated with incised decoration, whose development is characterized by the modeling and baking technique of ceramics. Among the elements of this type that make up the sample, there is a significant predominance of those artifacts coming from the south of the Calamuchita Valley, which present a greater technological and functional specificity that delimits their performance. From the comparative study between this subset and the rest of the recovered spindle whorls, it is suggested in hypothesis that the spinners of this area show a productive preference in the elaboration of threads of certain characteristics. 

En este Anexo se presenta un informe de las tareas de monitoreo y rescate llevadas a cabo en el patio de la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes, Universidad Nacional de Rosario

En este anexo se dan a conocer el registro y dibujos de 20 ejemplares que forman parte del Museo Regional y Arqueológico “Rodolfo Bravo”. Este registro fue realizado en 1961 por María Teresa Carrara junto a G. Monti y Nelly Magnano, en el marco de las investigaciones que se llevaron adelante entre los años 1961 y 1964 en los alrededores de Cafayate, provincia de Salta, Argentina.

This paper presents a synthesis of the information generated over the years in the area of the Laguna Blanca Grande, starting with the work carried out by Bórmida, in which he described and defined the Blancagrandense as a lithic industry that arose around 3500 b.C. and lasted until historical times, without mentioning the Fort Blanca Grande. The fort was highlighted by the local historians Arena, Valverde and Cortez, and later by the works by Goñi and Madrid, and the local historian Paladino. Studies on the fort have been continued by the documentary and archaeological analyses carried out in the northwestern sector, the back part of the fort and the lagoon. Since the mid-twentieth century, research has been generated from different interdisciplinary fields that never touched on each other, hiding or denying the continuity in the archaeological record, which reflects the pre- and post-conquest occupations of the Pampaean region. In this work it is argued that separating archeology in pre- and post-conquest periods restricts the knowledge of our past, establishing an artificial division in Pampaean archeology.