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BOBILLO, Federico Miguel. LITHIC PRODUCTION SYSTEM, TECHNOLOGICALSTRATEGIES AND ACTIVITY AREAS IN A QUARRY-WORKSHOP OF THE QUEBRADA SECA LOCALITY (ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA, CATAMARCA). Comechingonia [online]. 2022, vol.26, n.1, pp.11-20. ISSN 1851-0027.

The lithic production system of hunter-gatherer groups involves different sites distributed in an archaeological landscape: quarries, quarries-workshop, logistics sites and residential bases. In the Quebrada Seca locality (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca), sites that have different functionality make up a settlement subsystem: residential bases or camps-workshop, sites of domestic activities and/or subsistence, hunting sites and quarries-workshop (among others). The latter played an important role in the techno-utilitarian activities of the inhabitants of the locality, at least, from the 9000 years BP. The aim of this work is to understand the technological strategies and the production process in a vulcanite quarry-workshop in Quebrada Seca. For this, systematic surveys, samplings and a techno-typological analysis of lithic assemblages were carried out. In the lithic contexts analyzed, different types of cores, flakes and retouched tools types were recorded, accounting for different instances in the reduction and/or knapping sequence.In order to the data collected the application of simple, multifacial, bifacial and centripetal knapping techniques to reduce cores and blank extraction (flakes) of different sizes (including large and very large flakes) was observed. Likewise, different tools trajectories related to bifaceshaping and marginal retouch of edges and tips (scrapers, knives) were recognized.From this research it was possible to know the activities type carried out in the quarry-workshop and its role as part of the settlement of the Quebrada Seca locality.

Palavras-chave : lithic production quarry workshop techno typological analysis hunter-gatherers Puna Argentina.

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