They find a strange stone considered cultural heritage in a neighborhood of San Juan

2023-09-15 19:13:49

While they were doing routine patrol duties in the vicinity of the Place “Punta de Barro”. dIglesia department, in the extreme northwest of the province of San Juanmembers of the National Gendarmerie Squadron 25 “Jáchal” they detected on the edge of the Provincial Route No. 430-road that connects the town of Rodeo with Angualasto, in Iglesia-, a strange stone that caught their attention because of its particular format and large size.

Immediately, the uniformed They contacted representatives of the Directorate of Cultural Heritage of the province of San Juanfrom the department of Iglesiaswho quickly instructed them to take Photos of the object found and will transfer it to the Luis Benedetti Archaeological Museum, located in the town of Angualasto, where, after a series of exhaustive studiesthe specialists determined that it was a conanaI mean, a stone rectangular and concave in the middle on which grind the grain through another stone, similar to a mortar for crushing.

Furthermore, they determined that the conana measured 60 centimeters long by 35 centimeters wideand that it did not present any inscriptions or drawings on its surface.

Of great archaeological value, the conana is protected both by Provincial Law 571F that regulates the protection, conservation, restorationincrease and diffusion of all those goods that make up the Cultural and Natural Heritage of the province of San Juan.

While, at the national levelthis valuable stone is protected by the National Law No. 25,743 on the Protection of Archaeological and Paleontological Heritagewhich, like the provincial law, was created with the objective of prevent the movable and immovable property that is part of that heritage from being destroyed, deteriorated or leaving the country illegally.

It should be remembered that the archaeological heritage It is made up of both the movable and immovable things which are found both in the surface and subsoil or submerged in jurisdictional waters and that they can provide important information about the sociocultural groups that lived in Argentina.

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