Bones of recent mammals in the Amboseli Basin, southern Kenya, exhibit distinctive weathering characteristics that can be related to the time since death and to the local conditions of temperature, humidity and soil chemistry. A categorization of weathering characteristics into six stages, recognizable on descriptive criteria, provides a basis for investigation of weathering rates and processes. The time necessary to achieve each successive weathering stage has been calibrated using known-age carcasses. Most bones decompose beyond recognition in 10 to 15 yr. Bones of animals under 100 kg and juveniles appear to weather more rapidly than bones of large animals or adults. Small-scale rather than widespread environmental factors seem to have greatest influence on weathering characteristics and rates. Bone weathering is potentially valuable as evidence for the period of time represented in recent or fossil bone assemblages, in- cluding those on archeological sites, and may also be an important tool in censusing populations of animals in modern ecosystems.

Taphonomic and Ecologic Information Form Bone Weathering

The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community. Catherine J. Allen. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. 288 pp., illustrations. $29.95 (cloth), $15.95 (paper). ISBN 0-87474-256-0, ISBN 0-87474-255-2

The Hold Life Has: Coca and Cultural Identity in an Andean Community

Maize consumption in pre-Hispanic south-central Andes: chemical and microscopic evidence from organic residues in archaeological pottery from western Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina)

GC–MS and HPLC-ESI-QToF characterization of organic lipid residues from ceramic vessels used by Basque whalers from 16th to 17th centuries

A multi-analytical investigation of the materials and painting technique of a wall painting from the church of Copacabana de Andamarca (Bolivia)

GPR prospecting in a prehispanic village, NW Argentina

Este trabajo propone evaluar las particularidades y los matices de las estrategias implementadas por el Estado Inca para ocupar un sector meridional del Noroeste Argentino (Departamento de Tinogasta, Catamarca). Para ello, nos focalizamos en el analisis de dos sitios arqueologicos, Fiambala-1 (5.000 msnm [metros sobre el nivel del mar]) y Batungasta (1.480 msnm), cuyas historias de ocupacion nos remite tanto a tiempos pre-incas como incas. Sus emplazamientos se relacionan con rasgos de la geografia que tuvieron alta significacion social en la cosmovision andina, como son los volcanes, las fuentes de minerales y los rios de aguas de color rojo. Discutimos como la memoria social jugo un papel importante en la construccion de este nuevo escenario social.

Estrategias De Ocupacion Incaica Al Sur Del Tawantinsuyu (Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina): La Apropiacion De Paisajes Sagrados Y La Memoria Social

Fil: Miyano, Juan Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Oficina de Coordinacion Administrativa Saavedra 15. Instituto de las Culturas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina

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Animales e Incas en el Oeste Tinogasteño (Catamarca, Argentina)

Resumen es: El proposito de este trabajo es discutir a traves de los resultados de los estudios zooarqueologicos las interpretaciones realizadas acerca del sitio de ...

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Papers

Maize consumption in pre-Hispanic south-central Andes: chemical and microscopic evidence from organic residues in archaeological pottery from western Tinogasta (Catamarca, Argentina)

GPR prospecting in a prehispanic village, NW Argentina

Estrategias De Ocupacion Incaica Al Sur Del Tawantinsuyu (Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina): La Apropiacion De Paisajes Sagrados Y La Memoria Social

Animales e Incas en el Oeste Tinogasteño (Catamarca, Argentina)

El consumo de camélidos (vicugna vicugna) en un sitio ceremonial de la alta cordillera andina (departamento tinogasta, catamarca, argentina)