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Ancient agriculture and domestic activities: a contextual approach studying silica phytoliths and other microfossils in soils
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Based on microfossil and soil data, we discuss a different methodological approach to agricultural and domestic archaeological studies, taking two Formative sites in the north-west Argentinian high valleys (province of Catamarca) as case studies, independently of traditional datasets and historical analogies. As a result of our investigations we not only recognised the vegetal species cultivated in ancient fields (dated to c. AD 800) but also distinguished some of the agricultural practices, such as crop rotation and alternation, use of animal fertilisers and irrigation resources, as well as the abandonment of the site. From this perspective, corral episodes could also be distinguished. In residential enclosures, we obtained results concerning activity areas, the definition of floors and the identification of reoccupations.
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The three high valleys of north-western Argentina have seen sustained agriculture, with changes, ruptures, and continuities, over the last 1,200 years.
“this region has seen sustained agriculture, with changes, ruptures, and continuities, over the last 1,200 years (Korstanje, 2010;Taddei Salinas et al., 2023).”
From In defense of the soils. A hybrid perspective of archaeology of agriculture in the Andean high valleys (Catamarca, Argentina) (2025) · cites this paper as Korstanje, 2010
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Mader, C., Godde, P., Behl, M., Binder, C., Hägele, E., Isla, J., Leceta, F., Lyons, M., Marsh, E., Odenthal, R., et al. (2024) · Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology · doi:10.3389/fearc.2024.1328315 · Cited by 18
Taddei Salinas, M. L. (2025) · Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology · doi:10.3389/fearc.2025.1622077
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- Korstanje, M. A., & Cuenya, P.
- Venue
- Environmental Archaeology
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-04
- Volume
- 15
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- 1
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- 43-63
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- 1461-4103
- 1749-6314
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