E J Marsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 57569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E J Marsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | E J |
| FAMILY NAME | Marsh |
| SIGNATURE | MARSH E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Nacional de Cuyo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2355-5415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sequences of Inequality and Social Processes in the Central and Southern Andes (1st and 2nd millennia AD)
The First Archaeomagnetic Age at Tiwanaku and Implications for Dating Andean Metallurgical Furnaces
This paper presents the first archaeomagnetic dating at Tiwanaku (Andean Altiplano). We compared the geomagnetic field values recorded by a metallurgical furnace against an updated SHAWQ2k‐SH global model and a regional intensity curve, both of which include, for the first time, high‐quality intensity data from the Southern Hemisphere. Results place the furnace's last use in 450–740 ce , and the decorated ceramic chronology at the site further co…
Leveraging radiocarbon in the Central Andes: From chronologies to research agendas
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
A bioavailable strontium isoscape for the Andes based on machine learning
An integrative approach to ancient agricultural terraces and forms of dependency: The case of Cutamalla in the prehispanic Andes
This paper presents an integrative and interdisciplinary approach to the study of ancient agricultural terraces and food production systems. Our approach consists of (1) a resource dependency theoretical framework and (2) the application of a variety of archaeological and geoscientific methods, including archaeological and geomorphological surveys, archaeological excavations, drone surveys, mapping based on satellite imagery and high-resolution d…
Spearthrower or bow? Hafted projectile points from the Americas refine comparative baselines for tracking projectile technologies
Bows and arrows in South America: Advances and debates
Absolute Chronology revisited: Integrating precise Bayesian models from Machu Picchu with Inca ethnohistoric praise narratives
Wari across the Andes: Modeling the radiocarbon evidence
The Khonkho tephra: A large-magnitude volcanic eruption coincided with the rise of Tiwanaku in the Andes
We report a tephra deposit in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia, which was deposited by a major, previously unrecognized eruption sometime between AD 400 and 720. Archaeological data suggest these centuries were characterized by a substantial community migration to Tiwanaku, where social interaction networks gave birth to one of the Andes’ first large complex societies. Here we provide an initial characterization of this tephra, based on …
Estrategias humanas y paleoclima en los Andes (34°S): Variaciones en la intensidad de ocupación de Laguna del Diamante (ca. 2000-500 años aP)
El área de Laguna del Diamante (3.000 m snm) tiene una oferta de recursos atractiva para las sociedades humanas durante los últimos 2.000 años. Este trabajo evalúa la variable intensidad en la ocupación humana en Laguna del Diamante en cinco segmentos temporales entre 2030 y 440 años cal aP. Estos segmentos se modelaron a partir de 14 fechados radiocarbónicos procedentes de tres sitios; la densidad de lascas proximales se evalúa como proxy de int…
Cambios Neolíticos Fragmentarios en Los Andes Argentinos (32,5°s): Tendencias Cronológicas en Los Fechados, El Paleoclima Y El Material Lítico Del Valle De Uspallata De Mendoza
El primer registro en los Andes argentinos centrales de plantas domésticas, cerámica, cementerios, camélidos domésticos y el arco y la flecha tiene aproximadamente dos mil años. En contraste con las expectativas tradicionales, los cambios neolíticos no ocurrieron juntos. Con el objetivo de evaluar la sincronía y/o diacronía de estos cambios neolíticos en el norte de Mendoza (Argentina), ordenamos seis fases con 92 fechados publicados, cinco de el…
The origin and dispersion of the bow in the Andes (16–37°S) based on a controlled database of projectile point metrics
Continuidad y cambio en la tecnología cerámica del noroeste de Mendoza (Argentina)
Se presentan los resultados del análisis de un conjunto cerámico cuyos contextos de hallazgo corresponden a sitios emplazados en distintos ambientes altitudinales del noroeste de Mendoza, y cuyo marco cronológico incluye la totalidad del denominado período Medio de la etapa Agroalfarera del Centro Oeste Argentino. Con el objetivo de evaluar cambios y continuidades en la cerámica al interior del período Medio y observar variación entre sitios de t…
Migración en los Andes Sur? evidencia preliminar para una comunidad de la diáspora aguada en el Valle de Calingasta, San Juan, Argentina
This paper hypothesizes that migration played a central role in the history of the Cerro El Calvario site in San Juan, Argentina's Calingasta Valley. Despite its regional importance, little has been published about the site. According to a Bayesian chronological model, including seven unpublished radiocarbon dates, the site was founded around ~720 AD (median) through short-distance migration and social fusion. Subsequently, there is sufficient ev…
The bow and arrow in South America
Estudio morfológico y discriminante: Dardos y flechas en los Andes entre 6200 y 1760 años cal AP en Los Morrillos, San Juan (31°S)
Presentamos un estudio funcional de puntas de proyectil líticas procedentes de una región andina (31°S) con cronologías entre 6200 y 1760 años cal AP. La muestra corresponde al sitio Los Morrillos, Gruta 1 y 2 (San Juan, Argentina). Organizamos la historia ocupacional del sitio en tres fases: 1) 6200-5000 años cal AP, 2) 2530-2230 años cal AP y 3) a partir de 2000 años cal AP. Buscamos identificar diferentes sistemas de armas, afinar la cronologí…
Esferas De Movilidad, Sistemas De Parentesco E Isotopos: Una Exploracion Comparativa Para El Norte De Mendoza (Argentina)1
Dedicamos este trabajo a Luis A. Borrero, maestro de mltiples generaciones, por ser una fuente de inspiracin y amor por la arqueologa
The Icla/Chullpamoko excavation and final remarks: From Contributions to the Archaeology of Bolivia. The 1958 Excavations of the Berlin Ethnological Museum . by Heinz Walter
Pre-Hispanic anthropogenic wetlands in the upper Ica drainage, south-central Andes: Dating and Context
Humans have engineered their environments throughout the Holocene, especially in the construction of hydraulic infrastructure. In many regions, however, this infrastructure is difficult to date, including the vestiges of water-management systems in the Andean highlands. Focusing on silt reservoirs in the upper Ica drainage, Peru, the authors use cores and radiocarbon dates to demonstrate the pre-Hispanic construction of walls to enhance and expan…
Radiocarbon vs. Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Ceramics in the Southern Andes: A Review of Paired Dates, Bayesian Models, and a Pilot Study
Archaeologists have been using luminescence to date pottery in South America since the late 1970s, inspired by early success in northern Chile. However, luminescence dates have not been rigorously compared to independent dating methods, which this paper’s goal. First, we present a compilation of 94 paired 14 C and luminescence dates from the southern Andes, which reveals discrepancies across a range of contexts and ages. Second, we compare two Ba…
Arqueología del valle de Uspallata (noroeste de Mendoza): Una síntesis actualizada
Transcurridos cincuenta años de la publicación del trabajo “Arqueología del valle de Uspallata, Provincia de Mendoza” escrito por Juan Schobinger en la revista Relaciones, actualizamos la nómina de sitios arqueológicos y sumamos evidencias, datos e interpretaciones generadas desde entonces por diversos equipos de investigación. Se incluyen además aportes específicos de análisis cerámicos, líticos, del arte rupestre, isotópicos, bioarqueológicos, …
Apropiación y control estatal de ambientes de altura en el extremo meridional del Tawantinsuyu
This paper presents the results of constructive techniques, space occupation patterns, chronology, lithic technology, ceramic technology and typology, camelid zooarchaeology, anthracology and studies of rock art from a group of archaeological sites in the Laguna del Diamante Natural Protected Area (Mendoza, Argentina). This area is located in the Cordillera Principal of the Andes and connects the upper Diamante and Maipo River Basins. Chronologic…
Investigaciones geoarqueológicas de fuentes líticas en los Andes argentinos: Génesis de las rocas, costos de accesibilidad y sistemas de producción lítica
Se presenta una síntesis de resultados de estudios geoarqueológicos de fuentes y canteras líticas ubicadas en ambientes de altura de Mendoza y San Juan (29°-34° S). Se comparan tres casos orientados a conocer la génesis de las rocas, su disponibilidad como recurso lítico, los modos de aprovisionamiento y los variables sistemas de producción. Los trabajos se basan en relevamientos interdisciplinarios de campo y la aplicación de diversos métodos de…
IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14 C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records from Tropical South America
Because the 14 C calibration curves IntCal and SHCal are based on data from temperate latitudes, it remains unclear which curve is more suitable for archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from tropical South America. A review of climate dynamics reveals a significant influx of Northern Hemisphere air masses and moisture over a substantial part of the continent during the South American Summer Monsoon (SASM). Areas affected by the SASM rece…
Dating the Expansion of the Inca Empire: Bayesian Models from Ecuador and Argentina
The chronology of the Inca Empire has traditionally relied on ethnohistoric dates, which suggest that a northern expansion into modern Ecuador began in AD 1463 and a southern expansion into modern Argentina began in AD 1471. We test the validity of these dates with two Bayesian models, which show that the ethnohistoric dates are incorrect and that the southern expansion began before the northern one. The first model of seven dates shows that the …
Temporal Inflection Points in Decorated Pottery: A Bayesian Refinement of the Late Formative Chronology in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia
The Late Formative period immediately precedes the emergence of Tiwanaku, one of the earliest South American states, yet it is one of the most poorly understood periods in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (Bolivia). In this article, we refine the ceramic chronology of this period with large sets of dates from eight sites, focusing on temporal inflection points in decorated ceramic styles. These points, estimated here by Bayesian models, index spe…
Scale of human mobility in the southern Andes (Argentina and Chile): A new framework based on strontium isotopes
Despite the large socio-economic changes recorded, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr values indicate a persisting scenario of low systematic mobility between the different geological regions. Our results suggest that strontium isotope values provide the most germane means to track patterns of human occupation of distinct regions in complex geological landscapes, offering a much higher spatial resolution than oxygen isotopes in the southern Andes
The emergence of agropastoralism: Accelerated ecocultural change on the Andean altiplano, ∼3540–3120 cal BP
In the fourth millennium BP, there were major environmental and cultural changes on the Andean altiplano of South America, but the chronology remains vague. A recent synthesis describes a slow, gradual transition from hunting and gathering to agropastoralism. This proposal is tested by refining the date of the onset of more humid and stable conditions, around 3550 cal BP, based on a Bayesian model of 26 dates from Lake Wiñaymarka and an updated c…
The disappearing desert and the emergence of agropastoralism: An adaptive cycle of rapid change in the mid-Holocene Lake Titicaca Basin (Peru-Bolivia)
Hunting, Herding, and Caravanning: Osteometric Identifications of Camelid Morphotypes at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia
Khonkho Wankane is a ceremonial center located in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. During the Late Formative period (AD 1-500), its residents practiced agropastoral lifeways and participated in the rise of the state at Tiwanaku. Like at many Andean sites, bones from the family Camelidae are the most abundant large mammal in domestic contexts. Identifying camelid morphotypes represented by these bones carries far-reaching implications fo…
The bow and arrow in South America
La fecha de la cerámica más temprana en los Andes sur. Una perspectiva macrorregional mediante modelos bayesianos
The earliest pottery marks a milestone in the human history of the southern Andes. This paper proposes an approximation of the date of the earliest pottery using Bayesian chronological models. Models of 84 radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates from 49 sites are compared among five areas in Argentina (the provinces of San Juan and Mendoza) and Chile (the semi-arid north, central, and south central). Although there are still few data, they show …
Estrategias humanas y paleoclima en los Andes (34°S): Variaciones en la intensidad de ocupación de Laguna del Diamante (ca. 2000-500 años aP)
El área de Laguna del Diamante (3.000 m snm) tiene una oferta de recursos atractiva para las sociedades humanas durante los últimos 2.000 años. Este trabajo evalúa la variable intensidad en la ocupación humana en Laguna del Diamante en cinco segmentos temporales entre 2030 y 440 años cal aP. Estos segmentos se modelaron a partir de 14 fechados radiocarbónicos procedentes de tres sitios; la densidad de lascas proximales se evalúa como proxy de int…
Apropiación y control estatal de ambientes de altura en el extremo meridional del Tawantinsuyu
This paper presents the results of constructive techniques, space occupation patterns, chronology, lithic technology, ceramic technology and typology, camelid zooarchaeology, anthracology and studies of rock art from a group of archaeological sites in the Laguna del Diamante Natural Protected Area (Mendoza, Argentina). This area is located in the Cordillera Principal of the Andes and connects the upper Diamante and Maipo River Basins. Chronologic…
Building Household and Community through Active Assemblages: A Late Formative Patio Group at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia
A community is an active assemblage of human and non-human elements bound together by interactions. Archaeologies of communities shed light on sets of overlapping and geographically emplaced assemblages of individuals, practices, spaces, buildings, objects, animals and landscapes. This article presents an archaeology of communities based a remarkably well preserved Late Formative (ad 1–500) patio group at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia. Excavation data…
Eyes of the empire: A viewshed-based exploration of Wari site-placement decisions in the Sondondo Valley, Peru
Pre-Hispanic anthropogenic wetlands in the upper Ica drainage, south-central Andes: Dating and Context
Humans have engineered their environments throughout the Holocene, especially in the construction of hydraulic infrastructure. In many regions, however, this infrastructure is difficult to date, including the vestiges of water-management systems in the Andean highlands. Focusing on silt reservoirs in the upper Ica drainage, Peru, the authors use cores and radiocarbon dates to demonstrate the pre-Hispanic construction of walls to enhance and expan…
The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa
This paper evaluates chronological trends in the presence and absence of domestic animal bone (sheep, goat, and cattle) and pottery in Namaqualand, the proposed gateway to the rest of South Africa for early herders or hunter-gatherers with sheep and ceramics. We update date calibrations with local ΔR corrections and mixtures of recent calibration curves and include five previously unpublished dates. We use histograms of calibrated medians, sorted…
A bioavailable strontium isoscape for the Andes based on machine learning
Continuidad y cambio en la tecnología cerámica del noroeste de Mendoza (Argentina)
Se presentan los resultados del análisis de un conjunto cerámico cuyos contextos de hallazgo corresponden a sitios emplazados en distintos ambientes altitudinales del noroeste de Mendoza, y cuyo marco cronológico incluye la totalidad del denominado período Medio de la etapa Agroalfarera del Centro Oeste Argentino. Con el objetivo de evaluar cambios y continuidades en la cerámica al interior del período Medio y observar variación entre sitios de t…
Dating the ebb and flow of Tiwanaku and post-collapse material culture across the Andes
The Khonkho tephra: A large-magnitude volcanic eruption coincided with the rise of Tiwanaku in the Andes
We report a tephra deposit in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia, which was deposited by a major, previously unrecognized eruption sometime between AD 400 and 720. Archaeological data suggest these centuries were characterized by a substantial community migration to Tiwanaku, where social interaction networks gave birth to one of the Andes’ first large complex societies. Here we provide an initial characterization of this tephra, based on …
Migración en los Andes Sur? evidencia preliminar para una comunidad de la diáspora aguada en el Valle de Calingasta, San Juan, Argentina
This paper hypothesizes that migration played a central role in the history of the Cerro El Calvario site in San Juan, Argentina's Calingasta Valley. Despite its regional importance, little has been published about the site. According to a Bayesian chronological model, including seven unpublished radiocarbon dates, the site was founded around ~720 AD (median) through short-distance migration and social fusion. Subsequently, there is sufficient ev…
Arqueología del valle de Uspallata (noroeste de Mendoza): Una síntesis actualizada
Transcurridos cincuenta años de la publicación del trabajo “Arqueología del valle de Uspallata, Provincia de Mendoza” escrito por Juan Schobinger en la revista Relaciones, actualizamos la nómina de sitios arqueológicos y sumamos evidencias, datos e interpretaciones generadas desde entonces por diversos equipos de investigación. Se incluyen además aportes específicos de análisis cerámicos, líticos, del arte rupestre, isotópicos, bioarqueológicos, …
Arthur Posnansky, the Czar of Tiwanaku Archaeology
Arthur Posnansky was the illustrious pioneer of Tiwanaku archaeology, remembered as a quixotic, flamboyant, and swashbuckling character. He was a naval officer, a businessman, and a scholar. He dedicated nearly fifty years of his life to the study of the Andean past, which resonates through the history of Bolivian archaeology. While clearly not the field’s father, his commanding presence and outsized legacy could make him the czar of Tiwanaku arc…
The Founding of Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'araña sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late Formative period. Tiwanaku was likely founded during the first or second century A.D. This refinement to the site…
Actividades domésticas durante los siglos III-VIII d.C. en el valle de Potrerillos (San Ignacio-Mendoza). Un acercamiento desde la osteometría y la tecnología cerámica y lítica
San Ignacio, en el Valle de Potrerillos, fue habitado durante los siglos III-VIII D.C. por grupos humanos que construyeron hornillos y ocuparon casas semi-subterráneas. Constituye uno de los escasos registros sistemáticos de contextos domésticos para el valle. Se presenta y caracteriza el sitio mediante el análisis osteométrico de camélidos, la organización de la tecnología lítica y el análisis tipológico y morfo-funcional cerámico. Las diversas …
The Founding of Tiwanaku
Tiwanaku is among the most prominent sites in the Andes. Despite nearly a century of research, it remains unclear when the site was founded, currently thought to be around 300 B.C. Excavations in 2008 in the Kk'araña sector present patterns suggested by previous research the earliest material culture is from the first part of the Late Formative period. Tiwanaku was likely founded during the first or second century A.D. This refinement to the site…
The emergence of agropastoralism: Accelerated ecocultural change on the Andean altiplano, ∼3540–3120 cal BP
In the fourth millennium BP, there were major environmental and cultural changes on the Andean altiplano of South America, but the chronology remains vague. A recent synthesis describes a slow, gradual transition from hunting and gathering to agropastoralism. This proposal is tested by refining the date of the onset of more humid and stable conditions, around 3550 cal BP, based on a Bayesian model of 26 dates from Lake Wiñaymarka and an updated c…
Eyes of the empire: A viewshed-based exploration of Wari site-placement decisions in the Sondondo Valley, Peru
Hunting, Herding, and Caravanning: Osteometric Identifications of Camelid Morphotypes at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia
Khonkho Wankane is a ceremonial center located in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia. During the Late Formative period (AD 1-500), its residents practiced agropastoral lifeways and participated in the rise of the state at Tiwanaku. Like at many Andean sites, bones from the family Camelidae are the most abundant large mammal in domestic contexts. Identifying camelid morphotypes represented by these bones carries far-reaching implications fo…
Hunter-gatherer mobility decisions and synchronous climate change in the Southern Andes: The early and middle Holocene occupations of ARQ-18, San Juan, Argentina (29.5°S)
Building Household and Community through Active Assemblages: A Late Formative Patio Group at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia
A community is an active assemblage of human and non-human elements bound together by interactions. Archaeologies of communities shed light on sets of overlapping and geographically emplaced assemblages of individuals, practices, spaces, buildings, objects, animals and landscapes. This article presents an archaeology of communities based a remarkably well preserved Late Formative (ad 1–500) patio group at Khonkho Wankane, Bolivia. Excavation data…
The disappearing desert and the emergence of agropastoralism: An adaptive cycle of rapid change in the mid-Holocene Lake Titicaca Basin (Peru-Bolivia)
Dating the Expansion of the Inca Empire: Bayesian Models from Ecuador and Argentina
The chronology of the Inca Empire has traditionally relied on ethnohistoric dates, which suggest that a northern expansion into modern Ecuador began in AD 1463 and a southern expansion into modern Argentina began in AD 1471. We test the validity of these dates with two Bayesian models, which show that the ethnohistoric dates are incorrect and that the southern expansion began before the northern one. The first model of seven dates shows that the …
Scale of human mobility in the southern Andes (Argentina and Chile): A new framework based on strontium isotopes
Despite the large socio-economic changes recorded, 87 Sr/ 86 Sr values indicate a persisting scenario of low systematic mobility between the different geological regions. Our results suggest that strontium isotope values provide the most germane means to track patterns of human occupation of distinct regions in complex geological landscapes, offering a much higher spatial resolution than oxygen isotopes in the southern Andes
La fecha de la cerámica más temprana en los Andes sur. Una perspectiva macrorregional mediante modelos bayesianos
The earliest pottery marks a milestone in the human history of the southern Andes. This paper proposes an approximation of the date of the earliest pottery using Bayesian chronological models. Models of 84 radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates from 49 sites are compared among five areas in Argentina (the provinces of San Juan and Mendoza) and Chile (the semi-arid north, central, and south central). Although there are still few data, they show …
The introduction of the bow and arrow in the Argentine Andes (29–34o S): A preliminary metric approximation
The study size patterns in projectile points (n=39) from six sites in the Argentine Andes (29–34°S) associated with 17 radiocarbon dates with medians spanning 3080–470 cal BP. This is the region’s first attempt to metrically distinguish arrows and darts, which is based on shoulder or maximum width, following Shott. The northern part of the study area (29°S) includes the earliest arrow point, slightly after 3080 cal BP. This suggests a rapid sprea…
The Comings and Goings of Sheep and Pottery in the Coastal Desert of Namaqualand, South Africa
This paper evaluates chronological trends in the presence and absence of domestic animal bone (sheep, goat, and cattle) and pottery in Namaqualand, the proposed gateway to the rest of South Africa for early herders or hunter-gatherers with sheep and ceramics. We update date calibrations with local ΔR corrections and mixtures of recent calibration curves and include five previously unpublished dates. We use histograms of calibrated medians, sorted…
IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14 C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records from Tropical South America
Because the 14 C calibration curves IntCal and SHCal are based on data from temperate latitudes, it remains unclear which curve is more suitable for archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from tropical South America. A review of climate dynamics reveals a significant influx of Northern Hemisphere air masses and moisture over a substantial part of the continent during the South American Summer Monsoon (SASM). Areas affected by the SASM rece…
Arthur Posnansky, the Czar of Tiwanaku Archaeology
Arthur Posnansky was the illustrious pioneer of Tiwanaku archaeology, remembered as a quixotic, flamboyant, and swashbuckling character. He was a naval officer, a businessman, and a scholar. He dedicated nearly fifty years of his life to the study of the Andean past, which resonates through the history of Bolivian archaeology. While clearly not the field’s father, his commanding presence and outsized legacy could make him the czar of Tiwanaku arc…
Temporal Inflection Points in Decorated Pottery: A Bayesian Refinement of the Late Formative Chronology in the Southern Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia
The Late Formative period immediately precedes the emergence of Tiwanaku, one of the earliest South American states, yet it is one of the most poorly understood periods in the southern Lake Titicaca Basin (Bolivia). In this article, we refine the ceramic chronology of this period with large sets of dates from eight sites, focusing on temporal inflection points in decorated ceramic styles. These points, estimated here by Bayesian models, index spe…
Investigaciones geoarqueológicas de fuentes líticas en los Andes argentinos: Génesis de las rocas, costos de accesibilidad y sistemas de producción lítica
Se presenta una síntesis de resultados de estudios geoarqueológicos de fuentes y canteras líticas ubicadas en ambientes de altura de Mendoza y San Juan (29°-34° S). Se comparan tres casos orientados a conocer la génesis de las rocas, su disponibilidad como recurso lítico, los modos de aprovisionamiento y los variables sistemas de producción. Los trabajos se basan en relevamientos interdisciplinarios de campo y la aplicación de diversos métodos de…
Radiocarbon vs. Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Ceramics in the Southern Andes: A Review of Paired Dates, Bayesian Models, and a Pilot Study
Archaeologists have been using luminescence to date pottery in South America since the late 1970s, inspired by early success in northern Chile. However, luminescence dates have not been rigorously compared to independent dating methods, which this paper’s goal. First, we present a compilation of 94 paired 14 C and luminescence dates from the southern Andes, which reveals discrepancies across a range of contexts and ages. Second, we compare two Ba…
Arqueología del valle de Uspallata (noroeste de Mendoza): Una síntesis actualizada
Transcurridos cincuenta años de la publicación del trabajo “Arqueología del valle de Uspallata, Provincia de Mendoza” escrito por Juan Schobinger en la revista Relaciones, actualizamos la nómina de sitios arqueológicos y sumamos evidencias, datos e interpretaciones generadas desde entonces por diversos equipos de investigación. Se incluyen además aportes específicos de análisis cerámicos, líticos, del arte rupestre, isotópicos, bioarqueológicos, …
Apropiación y control estatal de ambientes de altura en el extremo meridional del Tawantinsuyu
This paper presents the results of constructive techniques, space occupation patterns, chronology, lithic technology, ceramic technology and typology, camelid zooarchaeology, anthracology and studies of rock art from a group of archaeological sites in the Laguna del Diamante Natural Protected Area (Mendoza, Argentina). This area is located in the Cordillera Principal of the Andes and connects the upper Diamante and Maipo River Basins. Chronologic…
Estudio morfológico y discriminante: Dardos y flechas en los Andes entre 6200 y 1760 años cal AP en Los Morrillos, San Juan (31°S)
Presentamos un estudio funcional de puntas de proyectil líticas procedentes de una región andina (31°S) con cronologías entre 6200 y 1760 años cal AP. La muestra corresponde al sitio Los Morrillos, Gruta 1 y 2 (San Juan, Argentina). Organizamos la historia ocupacional del sitio en tres fases: 1) 6200-5000 años cal AP, 2) 2530-2230 años cal AP y 3) a partir de 2000 años cal AP. Buscamos identificar diferentes sistemas de armas, afinar la cronologí…
Esferas De Movilidad, Sistemas De Parentesco E Isotopos: Una Exploracion Comparativa Para El Norte De Mendoza (Argentina)1
Dedicamos este trabajo a Luis A. Borrero, maestro de mltiples generaciones, por ser una fuente de inspiracin y amor por la arqueologa
The Icla/Chullpamoko excavation and final remarks: From Contributions to the Archaeology of Bolivia. The 1958 Excavations of the Berlin Ethnological Museum . by Heinz Walter
Pre-Hispanic anthropogenic wetlands in the upper Ica drainage, south-central Andes: Dating and Context
Humans have engineered their environments throughout the Holocene, especially in the construction of hydraulic infrastructure. In many regions, however, this infrastructure is difficult to date, including the vestiges of water-management systems in the Andean highlands. Focusing on silt reservoirs in the upper Ica drainage, Peru, the authors use cores and radiocarbon dates to demonstrate the pre-Hispanic construction of walls to enhance and expan…
Cambios Neolíticos Fragmentarios en Los Andes Argentinos (32,5°s): Tendencias Cronológicas en Los Fechados, El Paleoclima Y El Material Lítico Del Valle De Uspallata De Mendoza
El primer registro en los Andes argentinos centrales de plantas domésticas, cerámica, cementerios, camélidos domésticos y el arco y la flecha tiene aproximadamente dos mil años. En contraste con las expectativas tradicionales, los cambios neolíticos no ocurrieron juntos. Con el objetivo de evaluar la sincronía y/o diacronía de estos cambios neolíticos en el norte de Mendoza (Argentina), ordenamos seis fases con 92 fechados publicados, cinco de el…
Geography (35 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (34 works) · Archaeology (23 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 works) · Geology (15 works) · Art (14 works) · Humanities (12 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (12 works) · Physical geography (12 works) · Radiocarbon dating (10 works)