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Late Holocene human occupation of the Quequén Grande River valley bottom

2003; Liverpool University Press; Volume: 2003; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3828/bfarm.2003.4.1

1476-4261

Gustavo J. Martínez, Quentin Mackie,

Primate Behavior and Ecology

This paper presents a preliminary model of the occupational history of the valley bottoms at the edges of the bed of the Quequen Grande River (Argentina) during the late Holocene. The ultimate goal of the research is to situate some aspects of technology, mobility, land-use patterns and settlement systems as a proximal consequence of a long-term process of ‘lithification', that is, the positioning of lithic raw material across otherwise lithic-free areas of the landscape.In order to address this issue, distributions of lithic artefacts are used to discuss features of the regional technological organisation and settlement systems and the relationships between people and the landscape. In that sense, lithification, a variant of a ‘provisioning places’ strategy, has implications for other aspects of a human adaptive system. The lithification process has influenced the organisation of technology, in particular the degree of planning and anticipation necessary, which in turn affects the degree to which technol...