Abstract
In the last two decades a number findings of wild plants together with cultigens account for the wide usage of plants in the Mid-late Holocene societies who lived on the coast of the Rio de la Plata and adjacent areas of the Parana and Uruguay rivers and the Atlantic coast (W53–63 and S30–35). We present an overview of those archaeological models developed in the region in connection to the role of gathering and domestication from the Mid– Holocene on. We also explore the presence and trajectory of early cultigens in the general framework of a holistic management of the plant environment by analyzing a case in the Archaeology of the Lower Basin of the Santa Lucia River. It is suggested that the knowledge about plant domestication was present and widespread in the Rio de la Plata region much earlier than what was being handled by researchers decades ago, as part of a broad set of interactions of those societies with plants.
Highlights
In the last two decades a number findings of wild plants together with cultigens account for the wide usage of plants in the Mid-late Holocene societies who lived on the coast of the Rio de la Plata and adjacent areas of the Parana and Uruguay rivers and the Atlantic coast (W53–63 and S30–35)
We present an overview of those archaeological models developed in the region in connection to the role of gathering and domestication from the Mid– Holocene on
We also explore the presence and trajectory of early cultigens in the general framework of a holistic management of the plant environment by analyzing a case in the Archaeology of the Lower Basin of the Santa Lucia River
Summary
La región terminal de la cuenca del Plata (Figura 1) ha sido poblada desde fines del Pleistoceno. Reportes arqueobotánicos de restos de plantas silvestres/cultivadas referidos al Pleistoceno final (en gris), al Holoceno medio (en gris rayado). Hacia el Holoceno medio-tardío se postula la existencia de pueblos asociados a un modo de vida aldeano con mayor grado de integración y diferenciación social que las definidas para los momentos más tempranos de ocupación del área (Iriarte et al 2004, 2008; López 2001). El objetivo de este trabajo es resumir, a partir de la información disponible y discutir con base en una consideración integral del uso de las plantas, tanto silvestres como cultivadas, las interacciones entre las sociedades prehispánicas y el entorno vegetal, en el área septentrional del Río de la Plata, particularmente en la cuenca baja del río Santa Lucía (Figura 1)
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