2017/03/01 by Juan Pablo Miyano, Irene Lantos, Norma Ratto +1 · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory #Archaeology #Pottery #Human bone #Geography #Puma #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Art #Biology #Fishery
paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/laq.2016.7
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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 ( aríbalos and aribaloides ) from the pottery production center of Batungasta to San Francisco. We postulate that the a ríbalos and aribaloides , 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.