Prácticas sociales y paisajes de canteras. Un abordaje desde la etnoarqueología y la arqueología de los contextos de obtención de rocas

The management of lithic resources is a central activity in the reproduction of the social life in many past societies. In the context of these operations, individuals and groups developed actions, values and attitudes based on their technological habits, cultural patterns and symbolic representations, closely linked to the landscape they inhabited and its natural resources. The aim of this paper is approaching to the social practices related to the rock procurement and the social landscapes, that make up indigenous quarries. For this, first of all, we realized a bibliographic review about different ethnoarchaeological cases that document different activities and practices related to the rock procurement. Then, in relation with some of these data, we analyzed the archaeological landscapes and the material record of two quarry areas located in the center-East of Tandilia hills (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Antofagasta de la Sierra (Catamarca, Argentina).