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Chenopodium quinoa Willd. en la Quebrada de Los Corrales (Tucumán, Argentina): una tradición de tres mil años (ca. 3.800-630 a.p.)

Article

Authorship:

Arreguez, Guillermo Anibal ; OLISZEWSKI, NURIT ; Martínez Burzaco, Gonzalo Jorge

Date:

2021

Publishing House and Editing Place:

Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología

Magazine:

Boletín de la Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología (pp. 275-297) - ISSN 0716-5730
Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología

ISSN:

0716-5730

Summary

We present in this paper a synthesis of the findings of Chenopodium quinoa Willd. macro-remains in Quebrada de Los Corrales (El Infiernillo,Tucumán, Argentina) for the period ca. 3,800-630 b.p.The study area is located at an average altitude of 3,100 meters above sea level and has records of quinoa in open-air sites and in a cave where the conditions for the preservation of organic materials are optimal. The quinoa record from ca. 3,800 b.p. allowed to evaluate the functional and contextual variability of this andean grain during the late Holocene, initially defining a use mainly linked to symbolic/ritual aspects. These first records began a “tradition” of more than three millennia in the use of this resource, consolidating as food during the emergence of the agricultural- pastoral village Puesto Viejo at the beginning of the Christian Era until the first half of the second millennium.

Key Words

quínoaarqueobotánicamacrorrestos

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