Ephemeral Archaeology Arqueología Efímera (original) (raw)
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ISBN: 978-968-030-3786, 2009
El observatorio astronómico a más altitud de toda la América septentrional en la antigüedad es un monumento arqueológico conocido como la Estela del Nevado de Toluca, una escultura emplazada a gran altitud que servía para marcar el sitio exacto desde el cual se registraba sistemáticamente el aparente movimiento del Sol sobre el horizonte, esta observación permitía calcular con suma precisión la duración del año teniendo como referencia el paso cenital del Sol.
Visibilizando la Arqueología Efímera en la Antigüedad. Estado de la cuestión y vías de futuro
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This paper is the result of my first organization of a roundtable at the congress "JIA: ESTAT DE XARRADA 2020" (Alicante, Spain). The fragmentary nature of the archeological record causes that we can only find a negligible part of what we originally had in the past. However, organic vestiges are hardly preserved, or we also make them invisible. The introduction of archaeometry and the development of Archaeology as a science is enabling the comprehension of invisible matters such as: the residues of amphorae, the chaîne opératoire of technological processes or migrations in Prehistory. Despite this, interdisciplinary methodologies seem to have fossilized in Prehistory and Protohistory leaving Antiquity aside. This situation has progressively changed, but still, we firmly believe in the importance of discussing Ephemeral Archaeology and its significance in Antiquity. Consequently, we pretend to explore the state of question regarding the analysis of ephemeral remains in Antiquity (textiles, wood, cordage, food residues, etc.), propose improvements in the detection and documentation of these remains and explore future perspectives. As a result, we hope to visualize a line of research that has been for so long in the margin of Archaeology.