Pecked and polished materials from southern Patagonia: An experimental techno-functional approach

This paper presents the results of an experimental program on manufacture and use wear traces on pecked and polished artefacts. This analysis allowed us to recognize natural, taphonomic, and technological traces and to build a methodological framework for the analysis of archaeological artifacts. These results are relevant for the analysis of the archaeological record, since they imply that it will be possible to recognize these traces on tools made by polishing techniques that have subsequently been used with other types of materials.