Carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of natural pastures in the dry Puna of Argentina: a baseline for the study of prehistoric herd management strategies

CT Samec, HD Yacobaccio, HO Panarello - … and Anthropological Sciences, 2017 - Springer
This study represents an isotopic survey of modern plants developed to establish baseline
isotopic values in order to explore prehistoric herd management strategies employed by the …

South American Archaeological Isotopic Database, a regional-scale multi-isotope data compendium for research

L Pezo-Lanfranco, P Mut, J Chávez, T Fossile… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The South American Archaeological Isotopic Database (SAAID) is a comprehensive
open-access resource that aggregates all available bioarchaeological stable and radiogenic …

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

CT Samec, HD Yacobaccio, HO Panarello - Journal of Archaeological …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

First results on diet and mobility of the agropastoral societies of western Catamarca, Argentina

N Ratto, L Luna, C Aranda, JP Miyano, I Lantos… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, we carry out an isotopic study to learn about the diet and mobility patterns of
the human groups that inhabited different areas and environments of western Catamarca …

Assessing prehispanic herding strategies through stable isotope analysis: A case study from the Dry Puna of Argentina

CT Samec, M Pirola, HD Yacobaccio… - Environmental …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The main goal of this work is to study the camelid herding and management strategies
employed by the human groups that occupied the Dry Puna of Argentina during the late …

Environmental diversity and stable isotope variation in faunas: Implications for human diet reconstruction in Argentine mid-latitude deserts

C Otaola, A Ugan, AF Gil - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an isotopic study of δ 13 C and δ 15 N values for bone
collagen from 209 modern faunas from central-western Argentina. The samples come from …

Archaeometric contributions to agropastoral production research in Aguada society (Ambato Valley, Catamarca)

M Dantas, GG Figueroa - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This work shows the results of a series of recently conducted archaeometric studies (camelid
skeletal remains nitrogen, carbon and strontium isotopes analysis, and silicophytoliths and …

Lama guanicoe bone collagen stable isotope (C and N) indicate climatic and ecological variation during Holocene in Northwest Patagonia

AF Gil, C Otaola, GA Neme, EA Peralta, C Abbona… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper explores how significant are the ecological and climatic variables to influence the
stable isotopes of guanacos. Lama guanicoe bone collagen carbon and nitrogen stable …

Isótopos estables en camélidos y vegetales modernos de Antofagasta de la Sierra: hacia una ecología isotópica de la Puna Meridional argentina

J Grant - Intersecciones en antropología, 2016 - SciELO Argentina
En este trabajo se dan a conocer los primeros resultados obtenidos en el marco de un
proyecto de investigación orientado a construir una ecología isotópica de la Puna …

Human and camelid paleodiets in El Bolsón valley (NW Argentina): A stable isotope approach

C Neveu Collado, VA Killian Galván… - International Journal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This exploratory study aims at reconstructing human paleodiets and that of camelids—their
staple animal resource—in El Bolsón, an Andean valley in Catamarca Province, NW …