Abstract

SAGHESSI, Daniela. Plants that inspire: essay of applying of post-humanist categories to archaeobotany in east Norpatagonia (Argentina). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2021, vol.14, n.2, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-060X.  http://dx.doi.org/http://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v14.n2.29841.

Abstract The abundance of ethnohistorical references on the use of plants by hunter-gatherer groups in the northeast Patagonia along the 18th and 19th centuries contrasts with the scant archaeological approach that the topic received in the investigations of the last century. In recent years, this situation has begun to change with the beginning of systematic regional investigations that incorporate new analytical pathways, such as the study of plant microremains, to the archeology of this region. At the same time, since the end of 20th century, a theoretical opening has been taking place in the discipline, whose current most representative exponents are the currents known as “New materialism” and “Post-humanism”. The present essay has as aim to propose application for cases some categories of contemporary theoretical currents in archeology (e.g. ontological theory, assembles theory and affordances theory), based on available information on the use of plants by hunter-gatherer groups that inhabited the northeast Patagonia, and particular Rio Negro valley, along the late Holocene.

Keywords : Archaeological theory; Hunters-gatherers; Paleoethnobotany; Use of plants; Río Negro.

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