MARKERS OF ETHNICITY AND AGENCY IN THE FOOD PATTERNS. ITS APPROACH FROM THE HISTORICAL ZOOARCHAEOLOGY

Abstract

From the analysis of the bone remains of fauna in historical sites can investigate different research topics related to food, such as ethnicity, interaction between native and immigrant populations and agency. The objective of this work is to present the inferences made in four archaeological sites of the city of Rosario, between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Casa Parroquial, Juan Manuel de Rosas, La Basurita and Arenales. Their peculiarity lies in that they chronologically correspond with the massive arrival of immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century and the consequent growth of the city with the passing of the centuries. The hypothesis is that these changes are reflected in the archaeological record, both in the species preferred for consumption and in the ways of preparing them. Although this hypothesis could not be verified in a linear way, since other factors must be taken into account some results, such as the greater presence of consumption of sheep over that of cows by the end of the period, the diversification of the types of dishes prepared, tell us about the interaction between people of different origins that may have allowed a synthesis of dietary patterns.