Food Practices and Colonial Period Late Early Prehispanic: Domestic Context Study in the Ruins of San Francisco (Mendoza Valley XV-XVIth Century)

Abstract

This work is framed in the research project social and environmental processes in the urban sector of Mendoza between centuries XV –XVIII and it goes right to record archaeofaunal analysis from a domestic context belonging to the “late pre-Hispanic period - colonial early (centuries XV- XVI). This period was fundamental for the subsequent realization and existence of the city of Mendoza and involved the prior introduction by the Spaniards of resources, technologies and exotic techniques that transformed the production methods and subsistence patterns developed by the Huarpes that moment With these prospects want to contribute from the zooarchaeological evidence material identification of cultural guidelines developed by the Mendoza society in the context of the European conquest and urban training, specifically in relation to the implementation of new ways of eating in the valley of Güentota.