Una aproximación a los estudios tecnológicos de los torteros indígenas de las sierras de Córdoba (Argentina)

Abstract

In this work, a preliminary analysis of a set of ceramic spindle whorls (counter weights for spinning tasks), from various museological reservoirs of the province of Córdoba, is carried out. Techno-functional characteristics from measurable variables and it is investigated in the production possibilities that these artifacts admit, are considered. Most of them were produced coming from sherds from different ceramic containers, possibly discarded by breakages. This form of production, through recycling, involved widespread practice at the regional level, however, in specific finding and bounded spatiality limited we can see another type of spindle whorls, generally decorated with incised decoration, whose development is characterized by the modeling and baking technique of ceramics. Among the elements of this type that make up the sample, there is a significant predominance of those artifacts coming from the south of the Calamuchita Valley, which present a greater technological and functional specificity that delimits their performance. From the comparative study between this subset and the rest of the recovered spindle whorls, it is suggested in hypothesis that the spinners of this area show a productive preference in the elaboration of threads of certain characteristics.