Abstract

TARRAGO, Myriam N.; BORDACH, María A.  and  MENDONCA, Osvaldo J.. The graveyard at Rincón Chico 21, Santa María, Catamarca Province. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2005, n.29, pp.9-21. ISSN 1668-8104.

   We present here the results of an ongoing excavation at a collective burial site (Rincón Chico 21, Santa María County, Catamarca Province). Chronologically, the site spans from Regional Development Period to Spanish Contact. Different types of interments, inclusions of artifacts denoting differences in chronology, spatial relationships among a variety of burials, skeletal pathologies, as well as their possible meanings in terms of biocultural adaptation and physiologic answers to biological and sociocultural distress are described, discussed, and interpreted.

Keywords : Adaptation; Biology and culture; Biosocial distress; Early spanish contact.

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