Abstract

DOVAL, Jimena  and  TAPIA, Alicia. Analysis of archaeological leather in pampa seca frontier sites (Argentina, end of XIX century). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2019, vol.12, n.1, pp.23-34. ISSN 1852-060X.

Abstract We present the results of the analysis carried out on recovered leather fragments at Don Isidoro 2 and Fortín La Perra sites (La Pampa, Argentina). The sample of leathers from both sites amounts to 83 fragments and technomorphological and archaeometric analysis were carried out to study them. A total of 32 leather samples were selected and analyzed in the CITEC (INTI) for the archaeometric study, by means of a macroscopic and microscopic analysis of the grain layer and the corium layer, to determine their taxonomy and work processes. The technomorphological analysis of the fragments took into consideration several study variables. The results we obtained enabled us to identify the taxon and the possible function that some of the leather goods would have fulfilled. Finally, we put together all the archaeometric data with those provided by the documentary sources; so, we could draw a conclusion about some social practices developed at the end of the 19th century by the various social actors in the frontier space.

Keywords : Leather; Taxonomy; Taphonomy; Historical archaeology; Documentary sources.

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