THE CHOICE OF COLORED TOOLSTONE BY EARLY SETTLERS OF THE PAMPAS (BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA). NEW VIEWPOINTS FROM THE QUARRIES

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作者
Colombo, Mariano [1 ]
Flegenheimer, Nora [1 ]
机构
[1] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Area Arqueol & Antropol, RA-7630 Necochea, Argentina
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color; special qualities of raw materials; aesthetic value system; quarries; populating the Pampa; STONE; POWER;
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10.4067/S0718-68942013000100008
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K85 [文物考古];
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0601 ;
摘要
This paper discusses the value that colors might have had for the early societies that lived in the Pampas region during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition by focusing on raw materials selected for manufacturing stone tools, which constitute the main archaeological remain. The previously proposed idea that colored toolstone was preferred over white is reassessed in light of new findings at archaeological quarries. The significance of color and other qualities of the rocks and minerals is reaffirmed and it is argued that colored stones had an aesthetic value in the visual communications of the hunter-gatherer groups that populated the region around 11000 BP.
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页码:125 / 137
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