BUSCADOR RECOLECTA

The Ciexaus yamana ceremony that toke place in 1920 in Estancia Remolino (northern Coast of the Beagle Channel, Argentina) was described by the ethnographer Martin Gusinde. The site was excavated archaeologically during 2001 to obtain an image of an actual and historially documented ceremonial archaeological layer. The final aim was to evaluate the significant variables that would potentially allow to identify an ceremonial place. The conclusion was that a ceremonial place can be identify not just by the kind of items but by the treatment given to those materials and to the place. These important ceremonies did not happen at an especifical place. The effemeral use of the places difficults to separate and to identify the occupied surface. The excavation recovered some features of the ceremonial hut, materials of previous occupations as well as materials from later moments. All those materials were recovered by square meters and by the strata identified. The database is contained in an Excel file. This file has five sheets. The first one contains the description of the square and layer where each item was found as well as a formalised analitical desciption. The second sheet contains the keys for the descriptions. The third contains tables of distribution of the different types of materials by layers and squares. The fourth a dinamic table that can be used for obtained a frequency distribution graph by squares. The fifth contains the tables used to graph the frequencies of materials types by layers., The DataBase contains an analitical description of the materials found. Basically fragments of glass containers, bones and and metal items, as well as some stone tools in the lowest level corresponding to some pre-european contact moment. The most significant material has been fotografied and included in the collection SORIYAM., Agencias financiadoras: CSIC, CONICET, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (España) y Universidad de Barcelona (España)., No