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H 276 x W 203 mm

236 pages

90 figures (colour throughout)

Spanish text

Published Oct 2023

Archaeopress Access Archaeology

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Paperback: 9781803275550

Digital: 9781803275567

DOI 10.32028/9781803275550

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Keywords
Buenos Aires; Urban Archaeology; Rubbish; Urban Planning; Leveling Fills

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This book analyzes the process of formation of the urban land of Buenos Aires. The use of garbage and rubbish in large quantities is analyzed and three case-studies are considered: the town of Belgrano and its garbage dumps, the construction fills with rubble and the areas whose level has been lowered.

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Contents

Prólogo: La Arqueología Urbana de Buenos Aires, by Alasdair Brooks

Resumen

Abstract

I. Arqueología urbana en América Latina

II. Mens agitat molem: El subsuelo de la ciudad como hecho antrópico

III. Los paradigmas de la arqueología urbana: Buenos Aires antes de ser Buenos Aires

IV. Arqueología en las Tierras altas

V. Arqueología de las Tierras bajas

VI. Excavación de rellenos de estructuras

VII. Mirando el futuro desde el pasado

VIII. Referencias

About the Author

Daniel Schávelzon is an architect and archaeologist, founder and director of several institutions devoted to historical archaeology in Latin America. He has published nearly forty books on the subject and has received prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and several others around the world. He works to encourage the development of historical archaeology and urban archaeology in Latin America.

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Daniel Schavelzon es Director y fundador del Centro de Arqueología Urbana de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, se ha retirado como Investigador Superior del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología y ha fundado diversos centros de investigaciones a lo largo de su trayectoria. Autor de numerosos libros, Archaeopress ha publicado el libro “Arqueología de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Sudamérica” escrito con Ana Igareta, en forma reciente.