Natacha Buc

Natacha Buc is an Associate Researcher at CONICET and a lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires. She works at the Municipal Institute of Archaeological Research in Chivilcoy. She conducts her research within the Archaeology of Southeastern South America project, focusing on bone technology developed by human groups who inhabited the Paraná Delta before European colonization. Particularly, She studies the microwear traces and raw material properties of bone tools.

The project

Title: Sur les Traces d'Ameghino : Étude des Interactions Humains-Mégafaune en Région Pampéenne par l'Analyse Tracéologique.

Hosting institution: UMR 7209, Archéozoologie, Archéobotanique : Sociétés, Pratiques et Environnements - AASPE, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, Paris

Selective Bibliography

• Buc, N., D. Loponte. 2007. Bone tool types and microwear patterns: Some examples from the Pampa region, South America. En: C. Gates St-Pierre y R. B. Walker(Eds.), Bones as Tools: Current Methods and Interpretations in Worked Bone Studies. Oxbow, Oxford. BAR International Series 1622: 143-157.

• Buc, N. 2011. Experimental Series and Use-Wear in Bone Tools. Journal of Archaeological Science 38: 546-557.

• Buc, N. 2012. Tecnología ósea de cazadores-recolectores del humedal del Paraná inferior. Bajíos Ribereños meridionales. En: D. Loponte y A. Acosta (Eds.) Arqueología de la Cuenca del Plata. Series Monográfica III. Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires.

• Buc, N. 2019. Stylistic variability in bone tools from the Low Paraná wetland. Late Holocene, Argentina. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 56: 101-112.  DOI: 10.17632/yg84snvw3b.1

• Acosta, A., N. Buc, D. Loponte, A. Gascue, N. Bortolotto, R. Silvestre. 2021. The atlatl among prehispanic hunter-gatherers from the southeastern lowlands, Southamerica. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports 37: 103001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103001

• Acosta, A., D. Loponte y N. Buc. 2021. Nuevo registro de Canis lupus familiaris prehispánico en el humedal del Paraná inferior con evidencias de aserrado perimetral. Boletim do Museu Paranense Emílio Goeldi. Ciencias Humanas 16 (3). https://doi.org/10.1590/2178-2547-BGOELDI-2020-0125

• Buc, N., A. Acosta, L.T. Rombolá. 2023. Pierced antlers in the Southern Cone: Late Holocene hunter-gatherer groups of the low Paraná wetland. Quaternary International. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.01.002 

• 34. Acosta, A., N. Buc, L.T. Rombolá, D. Loponte. 2024. Small artifacts among the hunter-gatherers of the southern La Plata Basin. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01929-8

• Buc, N., A. Acosta, L.T. Rombolá, D. Loponte. 2024. Osseous harpoon heads of hunter-gatherers from the lower Paraná wetland. International Journal of Osteoarchaeolgy, e3321. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3321

• Loponte, D., A. Acosta, T. Giovanardi, M.J. Corriale, O.A. Higins, M. Carbonera, N. Buc, C. Scaggion, E. Bortolini, G. Maricani, S. Benazzi, L.T. Robmolá, A. Gascue, M.V. Westbury. 2025. A multidisciplinary investigation into whether Andean caravans reached the southern lowlands of the Paran´a-Plata basin during pre-Columbian times. Journal of Archaeological Science, Reports, 64: 105118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105118