Celeste Weitzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 634790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celeste Weitzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celeste |
| FAMILY NAME | Weitzel |
| SIGNATURE | WEITZEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5306-8071 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A New Early Site in Central-East Tandilia, Argentina: Initial Research at Alero El Destino 1
We present a new early site located at San Manuel (Tandilia range, Argentina), an area with scant systematic research situated between lithic quarries and many early campsites. Alero El Destino 1 is one of the few early sites found near major lithic quarries in the Pampean region. Radiocarbon dating associates the site with a Late Pleistocene occupation. The assemblage suggests that production sequences were primarily carried out at nearby quarri…
Las canteras del centro de Tandilia. Trayectorias y tensión en torno a su conservación
Since the peopling of the Pampean region, in the center of Tandilia ranges, hunter-gatherer groups produced numerous indigenous quarries. In these quarries, different kind of rocks were used until the european conquest. Later, with the foundation of the hill towns, these spaces continued to serve both as sites for artisanal craftsmanship and as integral components of agricultural and livestock exploitation. Throughout history, we recognize contin…
Caracterización tecno-morfológica de pseudoartefactos producidos por pisoteo humano: Evaluación Experimental Sobre Diferentes Materias Primas Líticas
La acción de los procesos tafonómicos sobre litos naturales o artefactos puede generar pseudomorfos de instrumentos líticos. Esto es particularmente cierto para los procesos postdepositacionales que incluyen a los mecanismos de percusión y presión en su funcionamiento. Entre ellos se encuentra el pisoteo, uno de los procesos tafonómicos más ubicuos en distintos contextos arqueológicos, especialmente aquellos de superficie. A fin de contribuir a l…
Un recorrido por los estudios experimentales líticos en arqueología de la Región Pampeana argentina
Este trabajo es una breve recopilación sobre la incorporación y el uso de la experimentación como metodología en los estudios líticos de la arqueología pampeana argentina. Repasamos la manera en que se aplicaron distintos enfoques experimentales, los temas abordados y presentamos una síntesis del estado actual de este tipo de trabajos. Resaltamos el papel que jugó la experimentación como punto de partida en el desarrollo de otras líneas de invest…
Primeras investigaciones en el sitio El Picadero (La Numancia, Tandil, Región Pampeana), una mina a cielo abierto
En este artículo se presentan los datos obtenidos hasta el momento para el sitio de obtención de rocas El Picadero (Pdo. de Tandil). Se describen las características del sitio, la metodología de excavación arqueológica, los fechados obtenidos, la dinámica de las actividades de canteo y un análisis preliminar de los materiales. El sitio es interpretado como una mina de baja complejidad, a cielo abierto, en función de la presencia de pozos y galerí…
Recycled Fishtail Points in the Argentinian Pampa: Everyday Tools on Distinctive Paleoamerican Objects
In this paper, we present the case of recycled Fishtail points from a late Pleistocene site in the Pampean Tandilia ranges, Argentina. Detailed descriptions of the recycled tools are integrated with previous breakage and fatty-acids analysis. We assess if the practice of recycling was related to a specific task, a conservative strategy, functional reasons, and if other non-economic reasons may have played a significant role. Results show a marked…
Assessing Strategies for Coypu Hunting and Use in the Salado River Depression (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages
We present a trampling experiment aimed at evaluating the overall morphological modifications on stone artifacts discarded forming big piles of lithic materials like the ones in intensive quarrying contexts. In this experiment, in contrast with most of the many trampling experiments developed so far, we laid orthoquartzite and silicified limestone artifacts in a nine- layered pile that included cores, flakes, different tools, and chunks. In this …
Alero La Esperanza. Un pequeño taller lítico del Holoceno medio en las sierras de Tandilia (Región pampeana, Argentina)
Se presentan los resultados del análisis de los materiales líticos recuperados en el sitio Alero La Esperanza (La Numancia, Pdo. de Tandil, Región Pampeana). Se trata de un taller ubicado en inmediaciones de canteras-taller de ortocuarcita grupo Sierras Bayas, datado en el Holoceno medio. Los resultados indican que en este espacio se llevaron a cabo las etapas intermedias de la cadena operativa y los objetivos de producción son consistentes con l…
Arqueología experimental para el análisis lítico: Algunos ejemplos de aplicación en arqueología argentina
El Primer Congreso Argentino de Estudios Líticos en Arqueología (CAELA), tuvo lugar en septiembre de 2018 en la ciudad de Córdoba. Este encuentro presentó la oportunidad para debatir y actualizar las diversas investigaciones desarrolladas en torno a los análisis líticos en el ámbito nacional. En este marco, se llevó a cabo el simposio de Arqueología Experimental del cual surgen los trabajos reunidos en este volumen especial
Exploración experimental de los efectos del pisoteo sobre artefactos de obsidiana
Como continuación de un proyecto destinado a contribuir al conocimiento arqueológico de los efectos de los procesos post-depositacionales sobre los materiales líticos, se realizó una experiencia de pisoteo sobre artefactos de obsidiana. El experimento incluyó el planteo de dos pistas -una sobre sustrato blando y otra sobre sustrato duro- en las que se depositaron artefactos experimentales manufacturados a partir de nódulos de obsidiana procedente…
What is New about the Early Peopling of Central and South America
This special issue gathers some of the presentations that were part of different sessions of the 9th Simposio Internacional “El Hombre Temprano en América” (SIHTA), which took place during November 2018 in the city of Necochea, Argentina. These interesting researches deal with several issues including gender and social life, new early sites, early lithic technology, taphonomy, and reconstructions of paleoenvironments and spatial patterns. This Pe…
Assessing Fishtail points distribution in the southern Cone
Fishtail points from the Pampas of South America: Their variability and life histories
Cine documental y arqueología, una forma de contar el pasado
The current paper presents the main guidelines and progress of an archaeological documentary which is part of a public archaeology project. The film is destined both for general public, in its television/internet format, and for school students; for this last audience the film can be used with printed material written by the archaeologists in charge of research. The documentary, which tells the story of Cerro El Sombrero Cima archaeological site,…
De usos y recursos. Análisis funcional y de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosas sobre artefactos líticos tallados
En este trabajo se exploran las posibilidades y limitaciones que ofrece el uso integrado del estudio de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosa y del análisis funcional de base microscópica sobre artefactos líticos tallados. La aplicación conjunta de estas metodologías busca obtener información acerca de los recursos orgánicos procesados con estos artefactos. Se presentan ejemplos experimentales y se toma como caso arqueológico una muest…
Landscape and Rocks in the East-Central Portion of the Tandilia Range (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
The east-central Tandilia Range (Pampean region, Argentina) witnessed recurrent human occupations during the final Pleistocene and early Holocene. Here we introduce an updated synthesis about material culture and landscape studies based on eight archaeological sites. The lithic technology of the early groups that inhabited the micro-region includes a highly selective acquisition of rocks and their transport from different sources, sometimes from …
Miniature points in an exceptional early South American context
Miniature points, similar to full-sized types used as hunting weapons, have occasionally been described in North and South America for Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies. They are explained as toys, practice pieces or ceremonial objects. They are an interesting case to use to reflect on how people materialize abstractions, encode visual communication and develop special practices related to particular places. Here we presen…
Breakage Patterns on Fishtail Projectile Points: Experimental and Archaeological Cases
Fishtail projectile points, also known as Fell 1, are dated between 11,000 and 9,500 14C yr B.P. in South and Central America and have been traditionally considered diagnostic of the early peopling of the continent. In this paper, experimental observations of impact breakage patterns on fishtail projectile point replicas are compared with archaeological points from the Cerro El Sombrero Cima site, in the Argentinian pampas, which exhibit a high b…
Rotura intencional de artefactos líticos formatizados en la Región Pampeana bonaerense
In this paper we deal with the intentional breakage of objects, more precisely with intentional breakage of flaked stone tools. In the first place we present a brief characterization of different types of intentional fractures on lithics and of those traits that allows their recognition. This characterization is based on a synthesis of the descriptions given by other researchers and our own experimental results. The deliberate breakage of objects…
Fishtail points from the Pampas of South America: Their variability and life histories
Landscape and Rocks in the East-Central Portion of the Tandilia Range (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
The east-central Tandilia Range (Pampean region, Argentina) witnessed recurrent human occupations during the final Pleistocene and early Holocene. Here we introduce an updated synthesis about material culture and landscape studies based on eight archaeological sites. The lithic technology of the early groups that inhabited the micro-region includes a highly selective acquisition of rocks and their transport from different sources, sometimes from …
Miniature points in an exceptional early South American context
Miniature points, similar to full-sized types used as hunting weapons, have occasionally been described in North and South America for Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies. They are explained as toys, practice pieces or ceremonial objects. They are an interesting case to use to reflect on how people materialize abstractions, encode visual communication and develop special practices related to particular places. Here we presen…
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages
We present a trampling experiment aimed at evaluating the overall morphological modifications on stone artifacts discarded forming big piles of lithic materials like the ones in intensive quarrying contexts. In this experiment, in contrast with most of the many trampling experiments developed so far, we laid orthoquartzite and silicified limestone artifacts in a nine- layered pile that included cores, flakes, different tools, and chunks. In this …
Recycled Fishtail Points in the Argentinian Pampa: Everyday Tools on Distinctive Paleoamerican Objects
In this paper, we present the case of recycled Fishtail points from a late Pleistocene site in the Pampean Tandilia ranges, Argentina. Detailed descriptions of the recycled tools are integrated with previous breakage and fatty-acids analysis. We assess if the practice of recycling was related to a specific task, a conservative strategy, functional reasons, and if other non-economic reasons may have played a significant role. Results show a marked…
Cine documental y arqueología, una forma de contar el pasado
The current paper presents the main guidelines and progress of an archaeological documentary which is part of a public archaeology project. The film is destined both for general public, in its television/internet format, and for school students; for this last audience the film can be used with printed material written by the archaeologists in charge of research. The documentary, which tells the story of Cerro El Sombrero Cima archaeological site,…
De usos y recursos. Análisis funcional y de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosas sobre artefactos líticos tallados
En este trabajo se exploran las posibilidades y limitaciones que ofrece el uso integrado del estudio de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosa y del análisis funcional de base microscópica sobre artefactos líticos tallados. La aplicación conjunta de estas metodologías busca obtener información acerca de los recursos orgánicos procesados con estos artefactos. Se presentan ejemplos experimentales y se toma como caso arqueológico una muest…
Un recorrido por los estudios experimentales líticos en arqueología de la Región Pampeana argentina
Este trabajo es una breve recopilación sobre la incorporación y el uso de la experimentación como metodología en los estudios líticos de la arqueología pampeana argentina. Repasamos la manera en que se aplicaron distintos enfoques experimentales, los temas abordados y presentamos una síntesis del estado actual de este tipo de trabajos. Resaltamos el papel que jugó la experimentación como punto de partida en el desarrollo de otras líneas de invest…
What is New about the Early Peopling of Central and South America
This special issue gathers some of the presentations that were part of different sessions of the 9th Simposio Internacional “El Hombre Temprano en América” (SIHTA), which took place during November 2018 in the city of Necochea, Argentina. These interesting researches deal with several issues including gender and social life, new early sites, early lithic technology, taphonomy, and reconstructions of paleoenvironments and spatial patterns. This Pe…
Rotura intencional de artefactos líticos formatizados en la Región Pampeana bonaerense
In this paper we deal with the intentional breakage of objects, more precisely with intentional breakage of flaked stone tools. In the first place we present a brief characterization of different types of intentional fractures on lithics and of those traits that allows their recognition. This characterization is based on a synthesis of the descriptions given by other researchers and our own experimental results. The deliberate breakage of objects…
Rotura intencional de artefactos líticos formatizados en la Región Pampeana bonaerense
In this paper we deal with the intentional breakage of objects, more precisely with intentional breakage of flaked stone tools. In the first place we present a brief characterization of different types of intentional fractures on lithics and of those traits that allows their recognition. This characterization is based on a synthesis of the descriptions given by other researchers and our own experimental results. The deliberate breakage of objects…
Breakage Patterns on Fishtail Projectile Points: Experimental and Archaeological Cases
Fishtail projectile points, also known as Fell 1, are dated between 11,000 and 9,500 14C yr B.P. in South and Central America and have been traditionally considered diagnostic of the early peopling of the continent. In this paper, experimental observations of impact breakage patterns on fishtail projectile point replicas are compared with archaeological points from the Cerro El Sombrero Cima site, in the Argentinian pampas, which exhibit a high b…
Landscape and Rocks in the East-Central Portion of the Tandilia Range (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
The east-central Tandilia Range (Pampean region, Argentina) witnessed recurrent human occupations during the final Pleistocene and early Holocene. Here we introduce an updated synthesis about material culture and landscape studies based on eight archaeological sites. The lithic technology of the early groups that inhabited the micro-region includes a highly selective acquisition of rocks and their transport from different sources, sometimes from …
Miniature points in an exceptional early South American context
Miniature points, similar to full-sized types used as hunting weapons, have occasionally been described in North and South America for Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies. They are explained as toys, practice pieces or ceremonial objects. They are an interesting case to use to reflect on how people materialize abstractions, encode visual communication and develop special practices related to particular places. Here we presen…
De usos y recursos. Análisis funcional y de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosas sobre artefactos líticos tallados
En este trabajo se exploran las posibilidades y limitaciones que ofrece el uso integrado del estudio de sustancias grasas mediante cromatografía gaseosa y del análisis funcional de base microscópica sobre artefactos líticos tallados. La aplicación conjunta de estas metodologías busca obtener información acerca de los recursos orgánicos procesados con estos artefactos. Se presentan ejemplos experimentales y se toma como caso arqueológico una muest…
Fishtail points from the Pampas of South America: Their variability and life histories
Cine documental y arqueología, una forma de contar el pasado
The current paper presents the main guidelines and progress of an archaeological documentary which is part of a public archaeology project. The film is destined both for general public, in its television/internet format, and for school students; for this last audience the film can be used with printed material written by the archaeologists in charge of research. The documentary, which tells the story of Cerro El Sombrero Cima archaeological site,…
Assessing Fishtail points distribution in the southern Cone
Alero La Esperanza. Un pequeño taller lítico del Holoceno medio en las sierras de Tandilia (Región pampeana, Argentina)
Se presentan los resultados del análisis de los materiales líticos recuperados en el sitio Alero La Esperanza (La Numancia, Pdo. de Tandil, Región Pampeana). Se trata de un taller ubicado en inmediaciones de canteras-taller de ortocuarcita grupo Sierras Bayas, datado en el Holoceno medio. Los resultados indican que en este espacio se llevaron a cabo las etapas intermedias de la cadena operativa y los objetivos de producción son consistentes con l…
Arqueología experimental para el análisis lítico: Algunos ejemplos de aplicación en arqueología argentina
El Primer Congreso Argentino de Estudios Líticos en Arqueología (CAELA), tuvo lugar en septiembre de 2018 en la ciudad de Córdoba. Este encuentro presentó la oportunidad para debatir y actualizar las diversas investigaciones desarrolladas en torno a los análisis líticos en el ámbito nacional. En este marco, se llevó a cabo el simposio de Arqueología Experimental del cual surgen los trabajos reunidos en este volumen especial
Exploración experimental de los efectos del pisoteo sobre artefactos de obsidiana
Como continuación de un proyecto destinado a contribuir al conocimiento arqueológico de los efectos de los procesos post-depositacionales sobre los materiales líticos, se realizó una experiencia de pisoteo sobre artefactos de obsidiana. El experimento incluyó el planteo de dos pistas -una sobre sustrato blando y otra sobre sustrato duro- en las que se depositaron artefactos experimentales manufacturados a partir de nódulos de obsidiana procedente…
What is New about the Early Peopling of Central and South America
This special issue gathers some of the presentations that were part of different sessions of the 9th Simposio Internacional “El Hombre Temprano en América” (SIHTA), which took place during November 2018 in the city of Necochea, Argentina. These interesting researches deal with several issues including gender and social life, new early sites, early lithic technology, taphonomy, and reconstructions of paleoenvironments and spatial patterns. This Pe…
Assessing Strategies for Coypu Hunting and Use in the Salado River Depression (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina)
A Trampling Experiment to Assess Fractures and Edge Damage in Quarry’s Lithic Assemblages
We present a trampling experiment aimed at evaluating the overall morphological modifications on stone artifacts discarded forming big piles of lithic materials like the ones in intensive quarrying contexts. In this experiment, in contrast with most of the many trampling experiments developed so far, we laid orthoquartzite and silicified limestone artifacts in a nine- layered pile that included cores, flakes, different tools, and chunks. In this …
Recycled Fishtail Points in the Argentinian Pampa: Everyday Tools on Distinctive Paleoamerican Objects
In this paper, we present the case of recycled Fishtail points from a late Pleistocene site in the Pampean Tandilia ranges, Argentina. Detailed descriptions of the recycled tools are integrated with previous breakage and fatty-acids analysis. We assess if the practice of recycling was related to a specific task, a conservative strategy, functional reasons, and if other non-economic reasons may have played a significant role. Results show a marked…
Un recorrido por los estudios experimentales líticos en arqueología de la Región Pampeana argentina
Este trabajo es una breve recopilación sobre la incorporación y el uso de la experimentación como metodología en los estudios líticos de la arqueología pampeana argentina. Repasamos la manera en que se aplicaron distintos enfoques experimentales, los temas abordados y presentamos una síntesis del estado actual de este tipo de trabajos. Resaltamos el papel que jugó la experimentación como punto de partida en el desarrollo de otras líneas de invest…
Primeras investigaciones en el sitio El Picadero (La Numancia, Tandil, Región Pampeana), una mina a cielo abierto
En este artículo se presentan los datos obtenidos hasta el momento para el sitio de obtención de rocas El Picadero (Pdo. de Tandil). Se describen las características del sitio, la metodología de excavación arqueológica, los fechados obtenidos, la dinámica de las actividades de canteo y un análisis preliminar de los materiales. El sitio es interpretado como una mina de baja complejidad, a cielo abierto, en función de la presencia de pozos y galerí…
Las canteras del centro de Tandilia. Trayectorias y tensión en torno a su conservación
Since the peopling of the Pampean region, in the center of Tandilia ranges, hunter-gatherer groups produced numerous indigenous quarries. In these quarries, different kind of rocks were used until the european conquest. Later, with the foundation of the hill towns, these spaces continued to serve both as sites for artisanal craftsmanship and as integral components of agricultural and livestock exploitation. Throughout history, we recognize contin…
Caracterización tecno-morfológica de pseudoartefactos producidos por pisoteo humano: Evaluación Experimental Sobre Diferentes Materias Primas Líticas
La acción de los procesos tafonómicos sobre litos naturales o artefactos puede generar pseudomorfos de instrumentos líticos. Esto es particularmente cierto para los procesos postdepositacionales que incluyen a los mecanismos de percusión y presión en su funcionamiento. Entre ellos se encuentra el pisoteo, uno de los procesos tafonómicos más ubicuos en distintos contextos arqueológicos, especialmente aquellos de superficie. A fin de contribuir a l…
A New Early Site in Central-East Tandilia, Argentina: Initial Research at Alero El Destino 1
We present a new early site located at San Manuel (Tandilia range, Argentina), an area with scant systematic research situated between lithic quarries and many early campsites. Alero El Destino 1 is one of the few early sites found near major lithic quarries in the Pampean region. Radiocarbon dating associates the site with a Late Pleistocene occupation. The assemblage suggests that production sequences were primarily carried out at nearby quarri…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (9 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Art (8 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Breakage (3 works)