The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study

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Barrientos, Gustavo; Catella, Luciana; Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo
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2014
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The aim of this paper is to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related with the archaeological study of lithic landscapes and exemplify the approach with a case study (artifact distribution data from east-central Argentina). A lithic landscape—understood as the co-occurrence, in a given geographic space, of different structural units each one composed by a raw material source and the complete set of unmodified and human-modified pieces of rock extracted from that source and then transported, used, and discarded across the landscape (i.e., a scatter area)—can be modeled using kriging, a geostatistical interpolation tool useful for integrating scattered information into coherent spatial models. The case study allows for the examination and discussion of, on one hand, the relationships between the type and location of the sources and the size and shape of the respective scatter areas and, on the other, the reciprocal relationships between different raw materials and sources. It is concluded that a proper description of the spatial structure of a lithic landscape is the needed baseline from which to evaluate different explanatory models. Such models should take into account different sets of initial conditions and generative mechanisms, in order to cope with the pervasive problem of equifinality.
Fil: Barrientos, Gustavo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Cienicas Naturales y Museo. División Antropología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Catella, Luciana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; Argentina
Fil: Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina
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Artifact Distributions
East-Central Argentina
Geostatistics
Late Holocene
Lithic Landscapes
Raw Material Sources
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spelling The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case StudyBarrientos, GustavoCatella, LucianaOliva, Fernando Walter PabloArtifact DistributionsEast-Central ArgentinaGeostatisticsLate HoloceneLithic LandscapesRaw Material Sourceshttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6The aim of this paper is to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related with the archaeological study of lithic landscapes and exemplify the approach with a case study (artifact distribution data from east-central Argentina). A lithic landscape—understood as the co-occurrence, in a given geographic space, of different structural units each one composed by a raw material source and the complete set of unmodified and human-modified pieces of rock extracted from that source and then transported, used, and discarded across the landscape (i.e., a scatter area)—can be modeled using kriging, a geostatistical interpolation tool useful for integrating scattered information into coherent spatial models. The case study allows for the examination and discussion of, on one hand, the relationships between the type and location of the sources and the size and shape of the respective scatter areas and, on the other, the reciprocal relationships between different raw materials and sources. It is concluded that a proper description of the spatial structure of a lithic landscape is the needed baseline from which to evaluate different explanatory models. Such models should take into account different sets of initial conditions and generative mechanisms, in order to cope with the pervasive problem of equifinality.Fil: Barrientos, Gustavo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Cienicas Naturales y Museo. División Antropología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Catella, Luciana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; ArgentinaFil: Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; ArgentinaSpringer2014-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/54115Barrientos, Gustavo; Catella, Luciana; Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo; The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study; Springer; Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory; 22; 4; 9-2014; 1151-11921573-7764CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s10816-014-9220-0info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10816-014-9220-0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-15T14:43:01Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/54115instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-15 14:43:01.338CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
title The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
spellingShingle The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
Barrientos, Gustavo
Artifact Distributions
East-Central Argentina
Geostatistics
Late Holocene
Lithic Landscapes
Raw Material Sources
title_short The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
title_full The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
title_fullStr The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
title_full_unstemmed The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
title_sort The Spatial Structure of Lithic Landscapes: the Late Holocene Record of East-Central Argentina as a Case Study
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Barrientos, Gustavo
Catella, Luciana
Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo
author Barrientos, Gustavo
author_facet Barrientos, Gustavo
Catella, Luciana
Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo
author_role author
author2 Catella, Luciana
Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Artifact Distributions
East-Central Argentina
Geostatistics
Late Holocene
Lithic Landscapes
Raw Material Sources
topic Artifact Distributions
East-Central Argentina
Geostatistics
Late Holocene
Lithic Landscapes
Raw Material Sources
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The aim of this paper is to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related with the archaeological study of lithic landscapes and exemplify the approach with a case study (artifact distribution data from east-central Argentina). A lithic landscape—understood as the co-occurrence, in a given geographic space, of different structural units each one composed by a raw material source and the complete set of unmodified and human-modified pieces of rock extracted from that source and then transported, used, and discarded across the landscape (i.e., a scatter area)—can be modeled using kriging, a geostatistical interpolation tool useful for integrating scattered information into coherent spatial models. The case study allows for the examination and discussion of, on one hand, the relationships between the type and location of the sources and the size and shape of the respective scatter areas and, on the other, the reciprocal relationships between different raw materials and sources. It is concluded that a proper description of the spatial structure of a lithic landscape is the needed baseline from which to evaluate different explanatory models. Such models should take into account different sets of initial conditions and generative mechanisms, in order to cope with the pervasive problem of equifinality.
Fil: Barrientos, Gustavo. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Cienicas Naturales y Museo. División Antropología; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
Fil: Catella, Luciana. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo. División Arqueología; Argentina
Fil: Oliva, Fernando Walter Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Facultad de Humanidades y Artes; Argentina
description The aim of this paper is to discuss conceptual and methodological issues related with the archaeological study of lithic landscapes and exemplify the approach with a case study (artifact distribution data from east-central Argentina). A lithic landscape—understood as the co-occurrence, in a given geographic space, of different structural units each one composed by a raw material source and the complete set of unmodified and human-modified pieces of rock extracted from that source and then transported, used, and discarded across the landscape (i.e., a scatter area)—can be modeled using kriging, a geostatistical interpolation tool useful for integrating scattered information into coherent spatial models. The case study allows for the examination and discussion of, on one hand, the relationships between the type and location of the sources and the size and shape of the respective scatter areas and, on the other, the reciprocal relationships between different raw materials and sources. It is concluded that a proper description of the spatial structure of a lithic landscape is the needed baseline from which to evaluate different explanatory models. Such models should take into account different sets of initial conditions and generative mechanisms, in order to cope with the pervasive problem of equifinality.
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