%0 Journal Article
%T Estudios funcionales de artefactos l¨ªticos de Cueva de las Manos, R¨ªo Pinturas, Santa Cruz, Argentina
%A G. Roxana Cattaneo
%A Ana M. Aguerre
%J Revista del Museo de Antropologia
%D 2009
%I Museo de Antropologia
%X We present the results of microwear studies of a sample of scrapers, from the excavations at the site Cueva de lasManos -layers 4c, 5 and 6-, dated between 1610 bp to 9300 years bp. We are interested in defi ning on what typeof raw material these scrapers worked, since this subject wasn¡¯t previously analyzed. On the other hand we areinterested in extending the study of the morphologic variability of scrapers, in relation to their functional variability.Especially considering that this site presents a remarkable number of instruments classifi ed as scrapers and rabots.These new results will allow going deeper in the discussion started by Cattaneo in previous works. A differentiationwas established in them between certain subgroups of scrapers working only on one type of material and othergroups which combined several types- at least two of them. Also, we reintroduce the observations made with theLaser Confocal Scanning Microscope BioRad MRC600, that were also analyzed with the ¡°PHILOS¡± software for imagerecognition.
%K Cueva de las Manos
%K scrapers
%K functional analysis
%K design
%U http://publicaciones.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/index.php/antropologia/article/view/17/144