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Tecnologia y funcion de las puntas de Paijan: El aporte de la experimentacion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jacques Pelegrin  and
Claude Chauchat
Jacques Pelegrin
Affiliation:
ERA 28, C.N.R.S., 1 Place Aristide Briand, 92190 Meudon, France
Claude Chauchat
Affiliation:
Institut du Quaternaire, UMR 9933 “Milieux Techniques et Cultures Préhistoriques,” Av. des Facultes, Université Bordeaux 1, 33405 Talence cedex, France
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Resumen

En el curso de las investigaciones sobre el Paijanense de la costa nor-peruana, se estableció un programa de experimentos de talla de las puntas de proyectil llamadas puntas de Paiján. Diez experimentos de talla fueron realizados con implementos y materiales locales y sistemáticamente documentados: definición de las fases del proceso, tiempo de trabajo, recuento y descripción de todas las lascas-desechos, pesos, características de los productos obtenidos al fin de cada fase. Los resultados proporcionan información de orden económico sobre una actividad importante de los paijanenses y tienen consecuencias socio-culturales. Estos resultados se aplicarán al estudio de talleres arqueológicos ya recolectados. La ausencia de fauna terrestre de gran tamaño en los restos alimenticios de los sitios de vivienda y la morfología especial de las puntas sugieren que aquéllas han sido empleadas para atravesar peces marinos de tamaño mediano a grande, los cuales se encuentran en los basurales arqueológicos.

Abstract

Abstract

An experimental replication program for so-called Paiján projectile points was established in the course of investigations into the Paijanense lithic industry of the northern Peruvian coast. Ten replication tests were performed and systematically described, including the definition of phases, duration of work, counting and description of all flakes, and determination of the weights and characteristics of the end products of each phase. The findings provide economic information on an important activity of the Paiján people and have sociocultural implications. These results are now being applied to already collected archaeological chipping floors. The absence of large terrestrial fauna among the food remains of the living sites and the special morphology of the Paiján points suggest that they were used in spearing medium to large ocean fish, the remains of which are found in archaeological middens in the area.

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 367 - 382
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1993

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