Caracterización SEMEDS de inclusiones piroclásticas y opacos de la cerámica Viluco (Mendoza, Argentina)

Abstract

Realizamos una aproximación exploratoria a la caracterización por SEM-EDS de las inclusiones de 10 fragmentos de cerámica Viluco recuperados de contextos datados entre el siglo XV y XVII del norte de Mendoza y dos tiestos producidos durante la dominación incaica procedentes de un alero precordillerano mendocino (Centro Oeste argentino). Analizamos inclusiones piroclásticas y otras ricas en Fe, para conocer su microestructura y composición química (semicuantitativa). Los resultados permiten documentar sobre algunas de las tecnologías y posibles fuentes de materias primas usadas por las poblaciones locales de Mendoza en un período que abarca la dominación incaica y los primeros años de la colonia.

Results of a pilot study are reported on in which SEM-EDS was used to characterize inclusions in Late Agroceramic Period ceramic fragments from the north of Mendoza (Center West of Argentina). Ten Viluco pottery fragments were analyzed that had been recovered from piedemonte zone contexts dated between 1400 and 1700, and two samples from Inca tambos recovered from a cave in the pre-Cordillera. Pyroclastic inclusions and others rich in Fe were the focus of study; both their microstructure and their chemistry were characterized (the latter was determined semi-quantitatively). The results document technologies and ceramic resource choices made by local potters during the period of Inca domination and the early Colonial period.