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{{Short description|Argentine archaeologist}}
[[File:Carlos_J._Gradin_at_Cueva_de_las_Manos.jpg|thumb|right|Carlos J. Gradin inspecting rock art at Cueva de las Manos]]
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'''Carlos Joaquín Gradin''', also known as '''Carlos Gradín''', was an Argentine [[surveyor]] and [[archaeologist]].<ref name=":1" /> He is known for his extensive studies of [[Cueva de las Manos]],<ref name=":1" /> and carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Schobinger|first=Juan|date=April 1976|editor-last=King|editor-first=Mary Elizabeth|title=Current Research|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/279175|journal=American Antiquity|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|volume=41|issue=2|page=234|doi=10.1017/S0002731600092453|issn=0002-7316|jstor=279175|via=JSTOR}}</ref> He was considered by Luis Abel Orquera to have been "the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Orquera|first=Luis Abel|date=December 1987|title=Advances in the Archaeology of the Pampa and Patagonia|url=https://rdcu.be/cjxoO|journal=Journal of World Prehistory|volume=1|issue=4|page=393|pages=|doi=10.1007/BF00974880|issn=0892-7537|jstor=25800531|quote=Gradin is the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art.}}</ref> He was a member of the [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council]] (CONICET).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=ORTIZ-TRONCOSO|first=Omar R.|date=1980|title=INVENTORY OF RADIOCARBON DATES FROM SOUTHERN PATAGONIA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24610115|journal=Journal de la Société des américanistes|volume=67|page=187|issn=0037-9174|jstor=24610115|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Wainwright|first=Ian N.M.|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ian-Wainwright/publication/320457716_Rock_paintings_conservation_and_pigment_analysis_at_Cueva_de_las_Manos_and_Cerro_de_los_Indios_Santa_Cruz_Patagonia_Argentina/links/59e922dd0f7e9bc89b809085/Rock-paintings-conservation-and-pigment-analysis-at-Cueva-de-las-Manos-and-Cerro-de-los-Indios-Santa-Cruz-Patagonia-Argentina.pdf|title=Rock paintings conservation and pigment analysis at Cueva de las Manos and Cerro de los Indios, Santa Cruz (Patagonia), Argentina|last2=Helwig|first2=Kate|last3=Rolandi|first3=Diana S.|last4=Gradin|first4=Carlos|last5=Mercedes Podestá|first5=M.|last6=Onetto|first6=María|last7=Aschero|first7=Carlos A.|work=13th Triennial Meeting Rio de Janeiro Preprints|publisher=ICOM Preprints|year=2002|volume=2|page=582|oclc=938407252|author-link4=Carlos Gradín}}</ref>
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'''Carlos Joaquín Gradin''' (20 May 1918 – 31 March 2002), also known as '''Carlos Gradín''', was an Argentine [[surveyor]] and [[archaeologist]]. He carried out numerous studies in the [[Patagonia|Patagonian region]], and is known for his extensive studies of [[Cueva de las Manos]]. He was a member of the [[National Scientific and Technical Research Council]] (CONICET).


== Education and career ==
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Carlos J. Gradin was born in 1918 and died<ref>References to the death of Carlos J. Gradin:
Gradin was a member of the Institute of Archaeology of the {{lang|es|Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires}} (School of Philosophy and Literature of the [[University of Buenos Aires]]).<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last1=Frere|first1=María Magdalena|last2=Aguerre|first2=Ana Margarita|date=2020-07-15|title=Restitución de los restos mortales encontrados en el cerro Yanquenao, provincia de Chubut|trans-title=Restitution of the mortal remains found at Cerro Yanquenao, province of Chubut|url=http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/5943|journal=Arqueología|language=es|publication-place=Buenos Aires|volume=26|issue=2|page=206|doi=10.34096/arqueologia.t26.n2.5943|issn=1853-8126|quote=Carlos J. Gradín, especialista reconocido en el arte rupestre patagónico con proyección internacional, pertenecía al Instituto de Antropología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA con sede en el Museo Etnográfico.|doi-access=free}}</ref> He was a recognized specialist in Patagonian [[rock art]].<ref name=":4" />


Gradin became a surveyor and archaeologist,<ref name=":1" /> as well as a member of CONICET.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=ORTIZ-TRONCOSO|first=Omar R.|title=Inventory of Radiocarbon Dates from Southern Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego|date=1980|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24610115|journal=Journal de la Société des américanistes|volume=67|page=187|doi=10.3406/jsa.1980.2193|issn=0037-9174|jstor=24610115|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Wainwright|first1=Ian N.M.|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320457716|title=Rock paintings conservation and pigment analysis at Cueva de las Manos and Cerro de los Indios, Santa Cruz (Patagonia), Argentina|last2=Helwig|first2=Kate|last3=Rolandi|first3=Diana S.|last4=Gradin|first4=Carlos|last5=Mercedes Podestá|first5=M.|last6=Onetto|first6=María|last7=Aschero|first7=Carlos A.|work=13th Triennial Meeting Rio de Janeiro Preprints|publisher=ICOM Preprints|year=2002|volume=2|page=582|oclc=938407252|author-link4=Carlos Gradín}}</ref> His career lasted for over 30 years. <!-- This is presumed because his studies of Cueva de las Manos lasted for over 30 years, and he held these titles for the duration of that time period. If you can find explicit sources for the exact time frame, please add them. -->
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*{{Cite book|last=Clottes|first=Jean|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226188065.001.0001|title=What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity|date=2016|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=978-0-226-26663-3|pages=55|translator-last=Martin|translator-first=Oliver Y.|doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226188065.001.0001|lccn=2015029149|author-link=Jean Clottes|translator-last2=Martin|translator-first2=Robert D.|translator-link2=Robert D. Martin}}
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*{{Cite web|last=Reinoso|first=Susana|date=2017-11-03|title=Mensajes hallados en una cueva patagónica|url=https://www.clarin.com/revista-enie/ideas/mensajes-hallados-cueva-patagonica_0_Hkac9w9RW.html|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.clarin.com|language=es}}
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*[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15777827.pdf Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXXII] (PDF), 2007. Buenos Aires.</ref> in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lands, Hands And Cyanide: Mining Expansion In Northwest Santa Cruz|url=http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=3002|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.minesandcommunities.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cueva de las Manos. Historia de las Investigaciones en el sitio arquelógico.|url=https://www.cuevadelasmanos.org/investigacion.html|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.cuevadelasmanos.org}}</ref>


== Archaeological work ==
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== Work at Cueva de las Manos ==
Gradin carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Schobinger|first=Juan|date=April 1976|editor-last=King|editor-first=Mary Elizabeth|title=Current Research|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/279175|journal=American Antiquity|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|volume=41|issue=2|page=234|doi=10.1017/S0002731600092453|issn=0002-7316|jstor=279175|s2cid=245681077 |via=JSTOR}}</ref> He was considered by Luis Abel Orquera to have been "the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Orquera|first=Luis Abel|date=December 1987|title=Advances in the Archaeology of the Pampa and Patagonia|url=https://rdcu.be/cjxoO|journal=Journal of World Prehistory|volume=1|issue=4|page=393|doi=10.1007/BF00974880|issn=0892-7537|jstor=25800531|s2cid=161730330|quote=Gradin is the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art.}}</ref>
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Gradin and his team's study of cave art in and around Cueva de las Manos formed the most important research on the site. Him and his team began excavating the sites in 1964, which marked the beginning of their 30-year-long study.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Delegación Buenos Aires-MINPRO|title=Cueva de las Manos|url=http://cuevadelasmanos.peritomoreno.tur.ar/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426061322/cuevadelasmanos.peritomoreno.tur.ar/|archive-date=April 26, 2012|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Cueva de las Manos|language=es|publication-place=Perito Moreno, Argentina}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Schobinger|first=Juan|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315706375|title=The Ancient Americans: a reference guide to the art, culture, and history of pre-Columbian North and South America|date=2016-12-05|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-0-7656-8034-1|edition=1st|volume=1|pages=39–44, 57–61, 67 & 70|language=en|translator-last=Evans-Corrales|translator-first=Carys|doi=10.4324/978131570375|oclc=967392115|via=ProQuest Ebook Central}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite conference|title=The Cueva de las Manos, Rio Pinturas WHC Nomination Documentation|url=https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/936.pdf|conference=Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage}}</ref>


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=== Work at Cueva de las Manos ===
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In his studies, Gradin helped to separate the different stylistic sequences of the cave, and of rock art in [[Patagonia]] as a whole.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Onetto|first=María|last2=Podestá|first2=María Mercedes|date=2011|title=Cueva de las Manos: An Outstanding Example of a Rock Art Site in South America|url=https://cuevadelasmanos.org/pdfs/Onetto%20Podesta.%202011%20Cueva%20de%20las%20Manos.%20An%20Outstanding%20Example%20of%20rock%20art....pdf|journal=Adoranten|publisher=Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art|pages=67–78}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dobrez|first=Livio|last2=Dobrez|first2=Patricia|date=2014|title=Canonical Figures and the Recognition of Animals in Life and Art|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/s0718-68942014000100002|journal=Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino|volume=19|issue=1|pages=9–22|doi=10.4067/s0718-68942014000100002|issn=0718-6894|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Fiore|first=Dánae|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rock_Art_Studies_News_of_the_World_Volum/tDFwBwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&kptab=overview|title=Rock art studies: news of the world|date=2008|publisher=Oxford Books|others=Paul G. Bahn, Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker|isbn=978-1-78297-590-8|editor-last=Bahn|editor-first=Paul G.|editor-link=Paul Bahn|volume=3|location=Oxford|pages=313 & 315|chapter=Art on the rocks: Argentina, 2000–2004|jstor=j.ctt1cd0p65|oclc=908040896|editor-last2=Franklin|editor-first2=Natalie R.|editor-last3=Strecker|editor-first3=Matthias}}</ref>
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Carlos Gradin is known for his extensive studies of [[Cueva de las Manos]]. Gradin and his team's study of cave art in and around Cueva de las Manos formed the most important research on the site. Him and his team began excavating the sites in 1964, which marked the beginning of their 30-year-long study.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Delegación Buenos Aires-MINPRO|title=Cueva de las Manos|url=http://cuevadelasmanos.peritomoreno.tur.ar/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426061322/http://cuevadelasmanos.peritomoreno.tur.ar/|archive-date=2012-04-26|access-date=2021-03-21|website=Cueva de las Manos|language=es|publication-place=Perito Moreno, Argentina}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Schobinger|first=Juan|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315706375|title=The Ancient Americans: a reference guide to the art, culture, and history of pre-Columbian North and South America|date=2016-12-05|publisher=[[Routledge]]|isbn=978-0-7656-8034-1|edition=1st|volume=1|pages=39–44, 57–61, 67 & 70|language=en|translator-last=Evans-Corrales|translator-first=Carys|doi=10.4324/978131570375|oclc=967392115|via=ProQuest Ebook Central}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite conference|title=The Cueva de las Manos, Rio Pinturas WHC Nomination Documentation|url=https://whc.unesco.org/uploads/nominations/936.pdf|conference=Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage}}</ref>

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In his studies, Gradin helped to separate the different stylistic sequences of the cave, and of rock art in [[Patagonia]] as a whole.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last1=Onetto|first1=María|last2=Podestá|first2=María Mercedes|date=2011|title=Cueva de las Manos: An Outstanding Example of a Rock Art Site in South America|url=https://cuevadelasmanos.org/pdfs/Onetto%20Podesta.%202011%20Cueva%20de%20las%20Manos.%20An%20Outstanding%20Example%20of%20rock%20art....pdf|journal=Adoranten|publisher=Scandinavian Society for Prehistoric Art|pages=67–78}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Dobrez|first1=Livio|last2=Dobrez|first2=Patricia|date=2014|title=Canonical Figures and the Recognition of Animals in Life and Art|journal=Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino|volume=19|issue=1|pages=9–22|doi=10.4067/s0718-68942014000100002|issn=0718-6894|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Fiore|first=Dánae|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tDFwBwAAQBAJ|title=Rock art studies: news of the world|date=2008|publisher=Oxford Books|others=Paul G. Bahn, Natalie R. Franklin, Matthias Strecker|isbn=978-1-78297-590-8|editor-last=Bahn|editor-first=Paul G.|editor-link=Paul Bahn|volume=3|location=Oxford|pages=313 & 315|chapter=Art on the rocks: Argentina, 2000–2004|jstor=j.ctt1cd0p65|oclc=908040896|editor-last2=Franklin|editor-first2=Natalie R.|editor-last3=Strecker|editor-first3=Matthias}}</ref>


The importance of his discoveries to the country's natural and cultural heritage resulted in the site being named a [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] (UNESCO) [[World Heritage Site]] in 1999.<ref name=":0" />
The importance of his discoveries to the country's natural and cultural heritage resulted in the site being named a [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] (UNESCO) [[World Heritage Site]] in 1999.<ref name=":0" />


== Death and legacy ==
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Gradin has an Archaeological Museum named after him in [[Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz|Perito Moreno]], [[Argentina]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Citation|last=Onetto|first=Maria|title=Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas Cave Art|date=2014|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1624|work=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology|page=1845|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=Claire|place=New York, NY|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1624|isbn=978-1-4419-0465-2|access-date=2021-04-22|editor-link=Claire Smith}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=INAPL|url=https://digital.lib.usf.edu/?k26.1328|title=En tus manos... Cueva de las manos|date=2011|publisher=Grupo de Apoyo|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Proyecto|url=https://www.diputados.gob.ar/proyectos/proyectoTP.jsp?exp=6865-D-2016|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.diputados.gob.ar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cueva de las Manos: un viaje para reencontrarse con los antiguos pobladores patagónicos|url=https://fnartes.gob.ar/novedades/cueva-de-las-manos-un-viaje-para-reencontrarse-con-los-antiguos-pobladores-patagonicos|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Fondo Nacional de las Artes|language=es-AR}}</ref>
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Carlos J. Gradin was born in 1918 and died<ref>References to the death of Carlos J. Gradin:

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*{{Cite book|last=Clottes|first=Jean|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226188065.001.0001|title=What Is Paleolithic Art?: Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity|date=2016|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|isbn=978-0-226-26663-3|pages=55|translator-last=Martin|translator-first=Oliver Y.|doi=10.7208/chicago/9780226188065.001.0001|lccn=2015029149|author-link=Jean Clottes|translator-last2=Martin|translator-first2=Robert D.|translator-link2=Robert D. Martin}}
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*{{Cite web|last=Reinoso|first=Susana|date=2017-11-03|title=Mensajes hallados en una cueva patagónica|url=https://www.clarin.com/revista-enie/ideas/mensajes-hallados-cueva-patagonica_0_Hkac9w9RW.html|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.clarin.com|language=es}}
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*[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15777827.pdf Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXXII] (PDF), 2007. Buenos Aires.</ref> in 2002,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lands, Hands And Cyanide: Mining Expansion In Northwest Santa Cruz|url=http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=3002|access-date=2021-04-21|website=www.minesandcommunities.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cueva de las Manos. Historia de las Investigaciones en el sitio arquelógico.|url=https://www.cuevadelasmanos.org/investigacion.html|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.cuevadelasmanos.org|publisher=[[INAPL]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621080017/http://cuevadelasmanos.org:80/investigacion.html |archive-date=2013-06-21 }}</ref> making him 83 years old at the time of his death.

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Gradin has an Archaeological Museum named after him in [[Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz|Perito Moreno]], [[Argentina]].<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite encyclopedia | last=Onetto| first=Maria| title=Cueva de las Manos, Río Pinturas Cave Art| date=2014| url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1624| encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology| volume=3| page=1845| editor-last=Smith| editor-first=Claire| place=New York, NY| publisher=Springer| language=en| doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1624| isbn=978-1-4419-0426-3| lccn=2013953915| editor-link=Claire Smith (archaeologist)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=INAPL|url=https://digital.lib.usf.edu/?k26.1328|title=En tus manos... Cueva de las manos|date=2011|publisher=Grupo de Apoyo|language=es|author-link=INAPL}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Proyecto|url=https://www.diputados.gob.ar/proyectos/proyectoTP.jsp?exp=6865-D-2016|access-date=2021-05-01|website=www.diputados.gob.ar}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Cueva de las Manos: un viaje para reencontrarse con los antiguos pobladores patagónicos|url=https://fnartes.gob.ar/novedades/cueva-de-las-manos-un-viaje-para-reencontrarse-con-los-antiguos-pobladores-patagonicos|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Fondo Nacional de las Artes|language=es-AR}}</ref> As of 2019, the building is still under construction.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gutiérrez De Angelis|first1=Marina|last2=Winckler|first2=Greta|last3=Bruno|first3=Paula|last4=Guarini|first4=Carmen|date=2019|title=Rethinking Paleolithic Visual Culture throughout immersive technology: The site "Cueva de las Manos" as a virtual "Denkraum" (Patagonia, Argentina)|url=https://www.pismowidok.org/en/archive/2019/25-present-history/rethinking-paleolithic-visual-culture|journal=View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture|publisher=Widok. Foundation for Visual Culture|issue=25|doi=10.36854/widok/2019.25.2081|hdl=11336/168949 |issn=2300-200X|doi-access=free|s2cid=229288678|hdl-access=free}}</ref>


== References ==
== References ==
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== Further reading ==

* {{Cite book|last=Gradin|first=Carlos J.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/70516503|title=Investigaciones arqueológicas en Casa de Piedra|date=1984|publisher=Ministerio de Educación y Cultura|oclc=70516503}}

== External links ==
* [http://historiasprimarias.com/museo-de-arqueologia-carlos-gradin/ Museo De Arqueología "Carlos Gradín"] ["Carlos Gradín" Museum of Archeology] (in Spanish)—an article covering the new Carlos J. Gradin Museum of Archeology
*[https://www.cuevadelasmanos.org/pdfs/Manual_En_tus_manos_Cueva_de_las_Manos.pdf En Tus Manos… Cueva De Las Manos] (PDF) [In Your Hands...Cave of the Hands] (in Spanish)—a brochure for the new Carlos J. Gradin Museum of Archeology

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Carlos J. Gradin
Carlos J. Gradin inspecting rock art at Cueva de las Manos
Born20 May 1918 Edit this on Wikidata
Died31 March 2002 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 83)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires
OccupationArchaeologist, surveyor Edit this on Wikidata
Employer
Spouse(s)Ana María Aguerre Edit this on Wikidata

Carlos Joaquín Gradin (20 May 1918 – 31 March 2002), also known as Carlos Gradín, was an Argentine surveyor and archaeologist. He carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region, and is known for his extensive studies of Cueva de las Manos. He was a member of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).

Education and career

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Gradin was a member of the Institute of Archaeology of the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires (School of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires).[1] He was a recognized specialist in Patagonian rock art.[1]

Gradin became a surveyor and archaeologist,[2] as well as a member of CONICET.[3][4][5] His career lasted for over 30 years.

Archaeological work

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Gradin carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region.[4] He was considered by Luis Abel Orquera to have been "the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art."[6]

Work at Cueva de las Manos

[edit]

Carlos Gradin is known for his extensive studies of Cueva de las Manos. Gradin and his team's study of cave art in and around Cueva de las Manos formed the most important research on the site. Him and his team began excavating the sites in 1964, which marked the beginning of their 30-year-long study.[2][7][8]

In his studies, Gradin helped to separate the different stylistic sequences of the cave, and of rock art in Patagonia as a whole.[8][9][10][11]

The importance of his discoveries to the country's natural and cultural heritage resulted in the site being named a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 1999.[8]

Death and legacy

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Carlos J. Gradin was born in 1918 and died[12] in 2002,[13][14] making him 83 years old at the time of his death.

Gradin has an Archaeological Museum named after him in Perito Moreno, Argentina.[9][15][16][17][18] As of 2019, the building is still under construction.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b Frere, María Magdalena; Aguerre, Ana Margarita (2020-07-15). "Restitución de los restos mortales encontrados en el cerro Yanquenao, provincia de Chubut" [Restitution of the mortal remains found at Cerro Yanquenao, province of Chubut]. Arqueología (in Spanish). 26 (2). Buenos Aires: 206. doi:10.34096/arqueologia.t26.n2.5943. ISSN 1853-8126. Carlos J. Gradín, especialista reconocido en el arte rupestre patagónico con proyección internacional, pertenecía al Instituto de Antropología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la UBA con sede en el Museo Etnográfico.
  2. ^ a b Delegación Buenos Aires-MINPRO. "Cueva de las Manos". Cueva de las Manos (in Spanish). Perito Moreno, Argentina. Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
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  19. ^ Gutiérrez De Angelis, Marina; Winckler, Greta; Bruno, Paula; Guarini, Carmen (2019). "Rethinking Paleolithic Visual Culture throughout immersive technology: The site "Cueva de las Manos" as a virtual "Denkraum" (Patagonia, Argentina)". View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture (25). Widok. Foundation for Visual Culture. doi:10.36854/widok/2019.25.2081. hdl:11336/168949. ISSN 2300-200X. S2CID 229288678.

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