Contributions from a located forensic archeology: two decades of interventions in Tucumán (Argentina)

Abstract

We present from two forensic interventions the contributions of archaeology in the gestation and development process of the judicial technical and scientific field that investigates political violence and crimes against humanity in the province of Tucumán (Argentina) that took place between the years 1975 and 1983. Such a circumstance —that is, that the archaeological discipline has supported the conformation of the local forensic sphere—, we suggest, gave a particular character to the forensic practice that investigates this period. We propose to present the Tucuman experience focusing on the partial results of two forensic investigations and in which the contributions of archaeology were key to dimensioning the characteristics assumed by the extermination in Tucumán