dc.creatorBarrientos, Gustavo
dc.creatorCatella, Luciana
dc.creatorOliva, Fernando Walter Pablo
dc.date2014
dc.date2021-10-26T17:41:34Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-15T03:51:28Z
dc.date.available2023-07-15T03:51:28Z
dc.identifierhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/127310
dc.identifierissn:1072-5369
dc.identifierissn:1573-7764
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/7467321
dc.descriptionThe aim of this paper is to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related with the archaeological study of lithic landscapes and exemplify the approach with a case study (artifact distribution data from east-central Argentina). A lithic landscape—understood as the co-occurrence, in a given geographic space, of different structural units each one composed by a raw material source and the complete set of unmodified and human-modified pieces of rock extracted from that source and then transported, used, and discarded across the landscape (i.e., a scatter area)—can be modeled using kriging, a geostatistical interpolation tool useful for integrating scattered information into coherent spatial models. The case study allows for the examination and discussion of, on one hand, the relationships between the type and location of the sources and the size and shape of the respective scatter areas and, on the other, the reciprocal relationships between different raw materials and sources. It is concluded that a proper description of the spatial structure of a lithic landscape is the needed baseline from which to evaluate different explanatory models. Such models should take into account different sets of initial conditions and generative mechanisms, in order to cope with the pervasive problem of equifinality.
dc.descriptionFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format1151-1192
dc.languageen
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
dc.subjectArqueología
dc.subjectLithiclandscapes
dc.subjectRawmaterial sources
dc.subjectEast-central Argentina
dc.subjectArtifact distributions
dc.subjectGeostatistics
dc.subjectLate Holocene
dc.titleThe spatial structure of lithic landscapes: the Late Holocene record of East-Central Argentina as a case study
dc.typeArticulo
dc.typeArticulo


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