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Consumo de roedores en el sitio Villa la Punta, agro-alfarero temprano de la región Chaco-Santiague?aKeywords: dolichotinae, caviinae, ctenomys, early agricultural-potter, antropic evidence. Abstract: caviomorph bone remains from the villa la punta site, choya department, southwest santiago del estero province are analyzed in the current study. from the analysis of bone modification, represented body parts and age range, we present evidence of caviomorph rodent consumption and use by the populations that settled at the site in the early stages of an agricultural-potter economy, corresponding to the las mercedes pottery-bearing group. we propose that the dolichotinae rodent remains are the result of human consumption while the ctenomys sp. specimens entered the site due to the action of natural agents. the data did not allow a distinction among the agents that accumulated caviinae remains to be made. such results are the first evidence of dolichotinae consumption and a fundamental contribution to the zone under study.
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