Zooarqueología, tafonomía y procesos de formación de sitios rurales pampeanos: estado de la cuestión y expectativas para momentos tardíos

This paper reports the current state of affairs about zooarchaeology of rural historical sites in the Pampas region (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) as from mid XIXth century to the first two decades of XXth century. It reflects on the taphonomy and site formation processes of the sites corresponding to the last decades of the previously mentioned time span and it poses some archaeological expectations. It is assumed that both structure and the typical processes of these sites are partly determined by cultural factors, related to theintroduction of industrialism logic associated to the capitalist process of modernization during the last part of the XIXth century. If this new type of logic is not taken into account any interpretation of the archaeological record is seriously biased.