Management of Delicate Cultural Materials: the Human Remains of the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce, Olavarría, Argentina

Authors

  • María Gabriela Chaparro Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Facso), Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen), Argentina http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3785-2912
  • Pamela García Lobarde Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva Humana (LEEH), Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen), Argentina
  • Rocío Guichón Fernández Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas de Cuaternario Pampeano (Incuapa), Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.226.v1n21.05.2020

Abstract

Museums that keep human remains must conform to a set of regulations and professional recommendations for their safekeeping. The icom (International Council of Museums) Code of Ethics identifies these pieces as sensitive cultural materials and has a number of related guidelines. This will form the premise of this work, which aims to present the procedures that are being adopted to legally and technically condition the human skeletal remains of seven individuals that are located in the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce (meda, for its initials in Spanish) of Olavarría, in Argentina. Currently this museum is not open to the public and its archaeological collections are stored in a municipal warehouse.

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Author Biographies

María Gabriela Chaparro, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (Facso), Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen), Argentina

Phd in Archaeology (UBA), Bachelor and Professor in Anthropological Sciences (UBA). Investigator of CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research). Member of the PATRIMONIA, Program of the INCUAPA Executing Unit (CONICET-UNICEN). Chair of Legislation and Management of Cultural Resources and professor of Doctorate in Archaeology, Faculty of Social Sciences, National University of the Center of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNICEN).

Pamela García Lobarde, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Laboratorio de Ecología Evolutiva Humana (LEEH), Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Unicen), Argentina

Degree in anthropological sciences with orientation in archaeology (2011), PhD in archaeology (2017) from Unicen, Argentina. Postdoctoral scholarship by the Conicet. Lines of research: Public Archaeology, Bioarchaeology and Forensic Anthropology.

Rocío Guichón Fernández, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Conicet), Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas de Cuaternario Pampeano (Incuapa), Argentina

Degree in anthropology with a focus on archaeology (Unicen). Doctoral
scholarship by the Conicet, Argentina.

Published

2020-09-21

How to Cite

Chaparro, M. G., García Lobarde, P., & Guichón Fernández, R. (2020). Management of Delicate Cultural Materials: the Human Remains of the Museo Etnográfico Municipal Dámaso Arce, Olavarría, Argentina. Intervención, 1(21), 151–184. https://doi.org/10.30763/Intervencion.226.v1n21.05.2020

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