Argentina

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Bordo Marcial site. 2000BP. Burials in the area are found in tombs and cemeteries that span from 6000BP to 1300BP. The burials pre- and post-date the settlement occupations, but there are contemporary internments also.

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Cardonal and Bordo Marcial villages: Formative (Neolithic) Period, ca. 2000 years BP. Examples of the onset of settled life in NW Argentina. Agriculture, animal and plant domestication, pottery, copper and lithic

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Examples of Argentinian pottery and ceramic figurine from around 2000BC in the Bordo Marcial region.

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Dr. Cortés highlighted that archaeologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries targeted tombs and cemeteries for visually pleasing artefacts and in so doing comingled the then less-significant human bone.

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Duna cemetery 32 BC - 224 AD

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Patches of sand where grass doesn’t grow - thought to be bad omens and devils, and dangerous to walk through.

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Ritual to please the spirit of the earth with offerings before any form of excavation, to maintain the natural order and avoid bad omens.

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An anthropomorphic copper mask, which is one of the oldest intentionally shaped copper objects in the Andes. c. 3000BP