Abstract

GIANNOTTI, P. Sebastián; MANSEGOSA, Daniela A.; CHIAVAZZA, Horacio D.  and  ARAUJO, Emiliano J.. Consolidation of the argentine national state at the tip of the spear, saber and facón. Osteobiographical and historical approach to the remains of the Col. Ambrosio Sandes (1815-1863). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.13, n.3, pp.07-22. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v13.n3.26717.

Abstract The second half of the 19th century was determined by the consolidation of the Argentine national state within the framework of two opposing political-ideological worldviews: Liberalism versus. Federalism. The military forces and, specifically, its high-ranking military played a transcendental role by executing the monopoly on violence from the Provincial States in their national projection. The aim of this work is to study, from an osteobiographical-historical approach, a secondary burial exhumed from the grave of Ambrosio Sandes (1815-1863) (Municipal Cemetery of Mendoza, Argentina) who was the unitary colonel of the Argentine Army with a documented participation in the battlefields and on the national political stage. At the skeletal level, analyze indicators of metabolic-nutritional stress, functional stress, pathologies, traumas and oral health. The results allowed to elaborate a general osteobiographical profile and another individualizing one, providing foundations that allowed to approximate a possible identification. Likewise, they discuss the bioindicators according to the different stages of their life (childhood, military career and the events near their death). In this way, not only osteobiographical information of one of the most relevant characters of the period is provided, but also allows to live the logic of the State in formation embodied in the body of its protagonists.

Keywords : Ambrosio Sandes; Argentine Army; War; Bioarchaeology; Mendoza.

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