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liispanic tribes of the north-western región of the Argentine 
Republic in the manufacture of theír pottery, ( J ) but the pro- 
cess was not a common one. 
Among the maiiy fragments of pottery collected in the 
course of the investigations referred to, were a number bearing 
imprints of basketwork, and of network combined with basket- 
work. I am not aware of any examples of network inipres- 
sions on pottery having been found in the Argentine Re- 
public, ( 1 2 3 ) and, as regards the combination of network and 
basketwork, I believe that the specimens to be described are 
the only ones of this nature so far observed. 
THE SOURCE OF THE MATERIAL 
The material in question proceeds from the sites of per- 
manent neolithic ( :! ) settlements situated in that part of the 
Punilla valley lying between San Jerónimo and Dolores, in 
the province of Córdoba. These settlements are tliree in num- 
(1) Ambrosriti, Juan B. Algunos vasos ceremoniales de la región Calchaqui. In Anales 
del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, vol. VII, jnd Series IV, Buenos Aires, 1902, pp. 131. 
133, figs. 4 & 4 a. Boman, Rkic Antiquites déla región andine de la Republique Argentine 
ct du desert d'Alacama . Pnris, 1908, vol. I, p. 113, Píate II, lig. 3; p. 114; p. 24!, Pinte XV^ 
fig. 30; p. 358. Outes, Félix F. Los tiempos prehistóricos y p¡ otohistóncos en la provincia 
de Córdoba. In Revista del Musca de La Plata, vol. XVII, 2nd Series IV, Buenos Aires, 1910- 
I9IT, pp. 857-361, figs. 98-101. BltUCM, Carlos Bxp/oracipncs arqueológicas en las provincias 
de Tncumán y Catamarca. Buenos Aires, 1911, fig. 71, p. 75: p. 76. 
(2) I do not refer to iinpressions of eords applied for ornament, of which widely- 
spread method there are examples in tliis eountry. I11 this connection tliere may be 
cousulted Torres, I.uis María At queologia de la cuenca del rio Paraná. In Revista de! 
Museo de L.a Plata, vol. XIV, 2nd Series I, Buenos Aires, 1907, fig. It, p. 86; fig. 12, 
p. 87; fig. 24, p. 10 1 ; fig. 27, p. 102; fig. 42, p. 117; and Outes, Félix F. Nuevo jalón sep- 
tentrional en la dispersión de representaciones plásticas de la cuenca paranaense y su valor 
indicados ■. In Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, vol. I.XXXV, Buenos Aires, 
1918, fig. 2, p. 56; fig. 3, p. 58; figs. 6 & 7, p. 61 and fig. 9, p. 62. At San Roque I 
found a fragment of an anthropomorpliic figure to wliich part of the ornament liad 
been applied by nieans of a cord. Atneghino has figured a few pottery fragments 
bearing designs which, it has occurred to me, may be impressions of cords app'ied for 
decorative purposes, but an examination of the pieces themselves would be necefsary to 
settle the question. Amegiiino, Florentino An antigüedad del hombre en el Plata, París- 
Buenos Aires, 1880-1881, vol. I, P ate V, figs. 253 & 255; Píate VI, figs. 254,2568c 257. 
(3) The expression «neolithic» when applied to outh America has chronologically a 
very different significance from that attaching to it in Kurope, andas used liere must 
be uuderstood as limited to describing a State of civilization, the majority of the tribes 
ofwhatisnow t It e Argentine Republic having been still in the neolithic stage of human 
development at the Spanish Conquest. 
