Animales E Incas en El Oeste Tinogasteño (Catamarca, Argentina)

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ID4373579
AuthorsJuan Pablo Miyano (0000-0001-8752-8614), Ivan Lantos (0000-0002-4686-5689), Irene Lantos, Norma Rosa Ratto (0000-0002-6862-3330), Norma Ratto, Martín Orgaz (0000-0001-8130-5591)
Year2017
Volume28
Issue1
Pages28-45
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/laq.2016.7
OpenAlexW2603211262
LanguageES
Citations received11
References cited32

This paper explores the diverse human practices related to the use of animals during the Inca occupation of west Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina). We argue that the Inca state sponsored festivities in the San Francisco site (transitional puna of Chaschuil), where wild animal meat, mainly meat and bone marrow of adult vicuñas, was shared and consumed. These wild camelids were captured during the chaku, a collective hunting regulated by social and cultural mechanisms. Llamas were used as beasts of burden in caravans transporting ceramic vessels (aríbalosandaribaloides) from the pottery production center of Batungasta to San Francisco. We postulate that thearíbalosandaribaloides, which were designed for alcoholic beverages, were lined with camelid bone marrow to make their inner walls impermeable. Lastly, we argue that bones of birds and rodents were used to and the skin of a puma (important symbolic animal for the Incas) was processed in the San Francisco site

Archaeology · Art · Biology · Fish · Fishery · Geography · Human bone · Pottery · Puma · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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