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BELOTTI LOPEZ DE MEDINA, Carlos Raúl  and  BUGLIANI, María Fabiana. The fauna from Loma l´Ántigo. First zooarchaeological data on the Regional Developments Period from the Cajón valley, Catamarca, ca. 1200-1500 AD. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.3, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v14.n3.31389.

Abstract This paper reports the results of the analyses conducted on the archaeofaunas from the Loma l´Ántigo archaeological site (Cajón valley, Catamarca province). Loma l´Ántigo is a conglomerate settlement that rests on the top of a flattened hill, and which was dated to the Regional Developments archaeological period. The archaeofaunas were recovered from nine test-pits and the area excavation of three enclosures (structures E25, E66 and E93). Camelidae is both the most ubiquitous family between assemblages and the most abundant across them. Camelid specimens comparable to both domestic and wild species were recorded, and age profiles include young, subadult, adult and old animals. Loma l´Ántigo assemblages do not exhibit significant differences against archaeofaunas dated to the Formative Period of the Cajón valley (Cardonal and Yutopián sites), pointing to a broad continuity of modes of faunal exploitation and to similar environmental and sociocultural constraints on taphonomic histories, despite previously posited demographic, political and climate changes around the beginning of the second millennium AD for the Southern Calchaquí valleys.

Keywords : Cajón valley; Zooarchaeology; Regional Developments.

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