Archivos personales como fuente para la investigación científica. El Fondo Myriam Noemí Tarragó del Instituto de las Culturas

Abstract

In this paper we present the Myriam Noemí Tarragó Archive that has been preserved in the Archivo de Investigadores of the Instituto de las Culturas since 2019. Myriam Tarragó is a prominent archaeologist from Argentina with a prolific career that began towards the end of the 1950s and covered mainly the study of the past in the southern Andes, fundamentally the Argentine Northwest, North of Chile and she has also left her mark on Ecuadorian archaeology. We point out some necessary aspects to address when dealing with archival documentation and, in combination with the reconstruction of the producer's biography, we provide a general description of the archive. In addition, we offer a series of elements to be considered at the time of consultation in order to maximize the available data in the archive, with the ultimate goal of disseminating and making this valuable and extensive archive available to researchers and other interested parties. We also intend to discuss the relationship between the instruments offered by archival science and the users who use Archives as a source for their research, reflecting on the need for interdisciplinarity to improve the access to the documents.

Keywords

• Myriam Noemí Tarragó
• archives
• archaeology
• documents
• biography