López Geronazzo Lautaro N. (Orcid ID: 0000-0002-4918-2787) Identification of guinea pig remains in the Pucará de Tilcara (Jujuy, Argentina): Evidence in favor of the presence of the Andean breed in the Quebrada de Humahuaca Lautaro N. Lopez Geronazzo1, Clarisa Otero1,2, Alicia Álvarez1,3, Marcos D. Ercoli1,3 and Natalia Cortés-Delgado4 1 Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA), Universidad Nacional de Jujuy, CONICET.
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[email protected] Running head: Guinea pig remains in the Pucará de Tilcara Keywords: Caviinae, geometric morphometrics, Northwestern Argentina , Hispanic-Indian period, zooarchaeology This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/oa.2808 This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Correspondence to: Lautaro López Geronazzo, Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (INECOA). Instituto de Biología de la Altura (UNJu). Av. Bolivia 1661, 4600 San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy, Argentina. Tel: +54-0388-4221594 ext. 202. e-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT In this article, we identified rodent remains found in the Pucará de Tilcara, an archaeological site from the Argentine Northwest that was occupied by humans from 1,100 AD until the Spanish conquest.