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The prehistoric pastoralist groups that inhabited the Dry Puna of Argentina employed a combination of subsistence strategies that included the herding of domestic South American camelids and the hunting of wild ones since ca. 3500 years BP. The relative importance of both subsistence strategies to the prehistoric economy of these groups can be established through traditional zooarchaeological techniques, although how exactly herding and hunting practices developed and interacted both in space and time remains unknown. The general purpose of this work is to provide a tool to explore these questions through stable isotope analyses of animal tissues. We measured bone collagen δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of modern llamas and vicuñas, with the aim to account for the variation in the isotopic compositions of domesticated and wild South American camelids from the Dry Puna of Argentina in order to develop an appropriate frame of reference to address archaeofaunal and paleodietary data. Both δ 13 C (n = 140, mean = −18.4 ‰) and δ 15 N (n = 109, mean = +6.3 ‰) values showed a negative and significant correlation with altitude for llamas and vicuñas, which can be explained by the variation identified in plant δ 13 C and δ 15 N values and their correlation with altitude, as discussed in previous investigations. Based on these results we elaborated linear regressions models for both δ 13 C and δ 15 N values of both species, which will allow us to predict expected δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for archaeofaunal materials recovered at archaeological sites using altitude as the explanatory variable. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd

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Título:Stable isotope compositions of South American camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina: A frame of reference for the study of prehistoric herding and hunting strategies
Autor:Samec, C.T.; Yacobaccio, H.D.; Panarello, H.O.
Filiación:CONICET - Instituto de Geocronología y Geología Isotópica, Pabellón INGEIS, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, C1428EHA, Argentina
CONICET - Instituto de Arqueología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 25 de Mayo 221 3er piso., Buenos Aires, C1002ABE, Argentina
Palabras clave:Altitude; Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes; Isotopic ecology; Llamas; Vicuñas
Año:2018
Volumen:18
Página de inicio:628
Página de fin:636
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.042
Título revista:Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Título revista abreviado:J.Archaeol. Sci. Rep.
ISSN:2352409X
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_2352409X_v18_n_p628_Samec

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Samec, C.T., Yacobaccio, H.D. & Panarello, H.O. (2018) . Stable isotope compositions of South American camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina: A frame of reference for the study of prehistoric herding and hunting strategies. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 18, 628-636.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.042
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Samec, C.T., Yacobaccio, H.D., Panarello, H.O. "Stable isotope compositions of South American camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina: A frame of reference for the study of prehistoric herding and hunting strategies" . Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 18 (2018) : 628-636.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.042
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Samec, C.T., Yacobaccio, H.D., Panarello, H.O. "Stable isotope compositions of South American camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina: A frame of reference for the study of prehistoric herding and hunting strategies" . Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 18, 2018, pp. 628-636.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.042
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Samec, C.T., Yacobaccio, H.D., Panarello, H.O. Stable isotope compositions of South American camelids in the Dry Puna of Argentina: A frame of reference for the study of prehistoric herding and hunting strategies. J.Archaeol. Sci. Rep. 2018;18:628-636.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.042