One World Archaeology Mariano Bonomo Sonia Archila   Editors South American Contributions to World Archaeology One World Archaeology Series Editors Inés Domingo Sanz, Department of Prehistory, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Naoko Matsumoto, Department of Archaeology, Okayama University, Okayama, Japan More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8606 Mariano Bonomo • Sonia Archila Editors South American Contributions to World Archaeology Editors Mariano Bonomo Sonia Archila CONICET-División Arqueología del Museo Department of Anthropology de La Plata University of Los Andes Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo Bogotá, Colombia Universidad Nacional de La Plata La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina ISSN 2625-8641 ISSN 2625-865X (electronic) One World Archaeology ISBN 978-3-030-73997-3 ISBN 978-3-030-73998-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73998-0 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This work is subject to copyright. 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Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Contents 1 Introduction: South American Archaeology’s Contributions to World Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Sonia Archila, Mariano Bonomo, and Christine A. Hastorf Part I Hunter and Gatherer Societies in South America 2 Lifeworlds, Biota and Mineral Resources in the Checua River Valley, Colombia (9500 cal BP–1500 AD). . . . . . 15 Sonia Archila, Juan Pablo Ospina, Saúl Torres, Mónica Espinosa, and Ana María Groot 3 Sedentary Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Randall Haas 4 Social Trajectories of Hunter-Gatherer Societies in Central Argentina: Exploration and Colonization of a Desert Landscape, La Pampa Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Mónica Berón, Manuel Carrera Aizpitarte, and Florencia Paez 5 The Long-Term Relation Between Human Beings and Shellfish in the Semiarid Coast of Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 César Méndez and Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay 6 Hunter-Gatherers in a Broad Landscape: Off-Site Regional Archaeology in the Coyle River Basin, Southern Patagonia (Argentina) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Juan Bautista Belardi, Flavia Carballo Marina, and José Luis Sáenz 7 Pioneer Population Nodes in Southern Patagonian Lands . . . . . . . . . 159 Luis Alberto Borrero and Fabiana M. Martin v vi Contents Part II P ast Humans as Agents of Landscape Formation and Transformation 8 The pre-Hispanic Raised Fields System of the Mompós Depression in the Colombian Caribbean Region. A Preliminary Archaeological Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Sneider Rojas Mora and Fernando Montejo Gaitán 9 As Seen Through the Trees, a Lens into Amazonian Mobility and Its Lasting Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Myrtle P. Shock 10 Microstratigraphy and Faunal Records from a Shell Midden on the Hyperarid Coast of the Atacama Desert (Taltal, Chile) . . . . . . 249 Ximena S. Villagran, Carola Flores, Laura Olguín, Sandra Rebolledo, Valentina Durán, Consuelo Sandoval, Pedro Andrade, Cesar Borie, Jean-L ouis Guendon, and Diego Salazar 11 Environment Transformation and Landscape Domestication in the Lowlands of Northeast of Uruguay. Earthworks as Technology for the Management of Flood Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . 283 Camila Gianotti Part III M ultiple Ways to Study Interaction Between the Social and Natural World 12 A Singular Perspective on the Influence of Andean Theory in Archaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Tom D. Dillehay 13 Sedentism, Production, and Early Interregional Interaction in the Northern Sierra of Ecuador . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337 María Fernanda Ugalde and Eric Dyrdahl 14 Bioarchaeology of Andean South America: Past Contributions and Current Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 John W. Verano 15 The Cosmopolitan Misfits of Mainstream Amazonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Fernando Ozorio de Almeida, Rafael de Almeida Lopes, and Filippo Stampanoni Bassi 16 Humanized Nature: Symbolic Representation of Fauna in Pottery from the Paraná River of South America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411 Mariano Bonomo, Gustavo Politis, Laura Bastourre, and Germán Moreira Contents vii Making Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 447 Tim Denham References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 Contributors Rafael de Almeida Lopes Departamento de Arqueologia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Laranjeiras, Brasil Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil Grupo de Pesquisa Arqueologia e Gestão do Patrimônio Cultural da Amazônia, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Mamirauá, Tefé, Brasil Pedro  Andrade Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile Sonia Archila Department of Anthropology, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Laura Bastourre División Arqueología del Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Juan Bautista Belardi Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos (ICASUR), Laboratorio de Arqueología “Dr. Luis A. Borrero”, CONICET, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina Mónica Berón IDECU, Museo Etnográfico “Juan B. Ambrosetti”, CONICET, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina Mariano  Bonomo CONICET-División Arqueología del Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Cesar Borie Universidad Católica del Norte, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile Luis Alberto Borrero CONICET-IMHICIHU, Buenos Aires, Argentina Flavia Carballo Marina Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Unidad Académica Río Gallegos (ICASUR), Laboratorio de Arqueología “Dr. Luis A. Borrero”, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina Manuel Carrera Aizpitarte IDECU, Museo Etnográfico “Juan B. Ambrosetti”, CONICET, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina ix x Contributors Tim Denham School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Tom  D.  Dillehay Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA Escuela de Arqueologia, Universidad Austral de Chile, Puerto Montt, Chile Valentina Durán Departamento de Antropología, Universidad SEK, Santiago, Chile Eric Dyrdahl Carrera de Arqueología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE), Quito, Ecuador Mónica Espinosa Department of Anthropology, University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia Carola  Flores Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA), Coquimbo, Chile Departamento de Biología Marina, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile Camila Gianotti Laboratory of Landscape and Heritage Archaeology (LAPPU), associated to the Department of Agricultural Systems and Cultural Landscapes. Eastern Regional University Centre (CURE), University of the Republic (Udelar), Rocha, Uruguay Ana  María  Groot Departamento de Antropología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Jean-Louis  Guendon Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille, CNRS, Marseille, France Randall  Haas Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, CA, USA Christine A. Hastorf Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Fabiana M. Martin CEHA, Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile César Méndez Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), José de Moraleda 16, Coyhaique, Chile Fernando Montejo Gaitán Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH), Bogotá, Colombia Germán Moreira CIC-División Arqueología del Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina Amalia Nuevo-Delaunay Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), José de Moraleda 16, Coyhaique, Chile Laura Olguín Universidad Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile