Abstract

CERUTI, Carlos Natalio. African Fauna In Arroyo Leyes (Garay Department, Santa Fe Province, Argentina) Ceramics Representation Of Pangolin, A Singular Mammal. Folia [online]. 2023, n.46, pp.185-197. ISSN 0325-8238.  http://dx.doi.org/10.30972/fhn.4606496.

The pangolin is an insectivorous mammal (its diet mainly consists of ants and termites) whose habits are nocturnal and its body is covered by corneal scales. Eight pangolin species are known, four of them are located in Asia, and the other four in Africa. Three of the African species can be found in the Guinea Gulf. As pangolins are heavily persecuted (eaten as delicacies and their scales sought after for various remedies of traditional medicine), they are becoming scarce. The presence of a fragmented ceramic piece in the Arroyo Leyes’ collection reasserts the African characteristics of the authors of most of pieces of the set of pieces. It also furnishes prominence and value to this iconographic heritage for the knowledge of the Afro- descendant population of Santa Fe, between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries.

Keywords : Fauna; Arroyo de Leyes; Archaeology of Slavery; Santa Fe la Vieja.