Metodología para el estudio del procesamiento de plantas en sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras: un estudio de caso

In the study of hunter-gatherer societies, the importance of subsistence hunting in these groups has been overstated, modeling even the proposals of the early colonization of the continent. Furthermore, lithic materials associated with processing of plant resources have been ignored or undervalued because of the difficult conditions of preservation of organic materials (including the plant food resources) in the humid tropics, but mainly by the lack of a defined methodology for systematic recovery and study of vegetable remains and artifacts and activity areas associated with plant food proces...