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PETRUCCI, Natalia S.  and  SPANO, Romina C.. Local stories of plants and people. Note on archaeo-ethnobotany site Soria 2 sur Yocavil. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.2, pp.305-316. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v13.n2.27172.

Abstract This paper presents a synthesis of the evidences obteined from over 15 years of research at the archaeological site Soria 2 (Valle de Yocavil province of Catamarca) concerning the identification of the plants used in the past. Although the site has been was the subject of numerous approaches embodied in several thesis and articles, the information concerning the use of plant species has not been gathered in a single contribution focused on the interactions between people and plants. Within the framework of Archaeo-ethnobotany, we consider two main objectives, under an integrative multiescalar perspective. The first of them is to present a list of the species associated to the early occupation of the site, which were identified based on different approaches: plant microremains and macroremains, phytoliths studies and chemical analysis. The second objective is to recognize the practices involving the use of plants, taking into account their taxonomic identification and putting into play the information obtained through other lines of evidence. Thus, it is possible to delineate the actions and issues that shaped the daily life of the social group that inhabited the house: obtaining, preparing and consuming food, spinning, tool making, ritual practices, among others. These practices were considered under a multiscale perspective. The general aim, ultimately, is to build a local story about the interactions between plants and humans, contributing to the state of question about the early communities -beginning of the first millennium-, through an approach to those practices that intersect aspects such as knowledge, use and management of the environment.

Keywords : Plant microremains and macroremains; Interactions between people and plants; Local history; Yocavil.

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