Abstract

SELDES, Verónica  and  BAFFI, Elvira Inés. Path of the main research lines in study of human bones from the Argentine Northwest. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2020, n.57, pp.311-332. ISSN 1668-8104.

In this work, the main epistemological tendencies that guided the studies of human remains in the Argentine Northwest are reviewed. The history of these studies dates back to the end of the 19th century, with research carried out under evolutionary paradigms and framed in the colonialist and nationalist project of state-nation formation. Subsequently, the Historical-Cultural School and its stereotyped view of the original peoples marked archaeological and biological anthropology research from the 20s until the 80s. The emergence of the New Archeology meant a time of great changes for archeology and the study of human remains, a process that was belatedly imposed in Argentina by the socio-political events of the country and by the survival of the Historical - Cultural School. In the '90s the debates about the procedural schools implied a slow opening to the new theories derived from postprocessualism, which is still incipient in the bioarchaeology of the Argentine northwest but allowed to generate new research questions. In this way, studies of human remains in this region were approached from various theoretical perspectives that involved very different approaches and interpretations over time. This journey on the trajectory of professional practice is considered an inescapable path since allows us to understand the guidelines and theoretical positions of the different investigations that have been developed in recent years in the bioarchaeology of northwestern Argentina characterized by the coexistence of different theoretical frameworks

Keywords : Biological Anthropology; epistemological tendencies; Northwest Argentine; historic perspective.

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