Dos generaciones, un entierro: perspectivas osteobiográficas aplicadas al sitio Banda Meridional del Lago, Embalse de Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina

ZÁRATE, PALOMA; GONZÁLEZ, CLAUDINA; TAVARONE, ALDANA; FABRA, MARIANA

Revista del Museo de Antropologia

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Facultad de Filosofia y Humanidades

Lugar: Cordoba; Año: 2020 vol. 13 p. 219 - 219

1852-060X

he aim of this article is to reconstruct, from an osteobiographical perspective, the life history of a woman who inhabited the mountainous region of Córdoba during the final late Holocene, considering two stages during her life, childhood and adulthood. From a social bioarchaeological perspective, it is interesting to ?humanize the past?, combining bioarcheological and archaeological information with a fictional narrative story, an alternative form to the main genre of archaeological and bioarcheological writing. We conducted osteobiographical studies, including the determination of sex, estimation of age and laterality, and detected macro- and microscopic pathological lesions, as well as entesial and degenerative changes. Isotopic (δ13C, δ15N), archaeobotany (silicophyitolites and starches contained in dental tartar) and genetics (mitochondrial lineage) information were incorporated into the case study. This study allowed us to explore a single unique life story, shaped by