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).{{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}} He was a recognized specialist in Patagonian rock art.

Gradin became a surveyor and archaeologist, as well as a member of CONICET.{{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|url-access=subscription}}{{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}} His career lasted for over 30 years.

Gradin carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region.{{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 |url-access=subscription}} He was considered by Luis Abel Orquera to have been "the principal authority on indigenous Pampean-Patagonian art."{{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.|url-access=subscription}}

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.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

In his studies, Gradin helped to separate the different stylistic sequences of the cave, and of rock art in Patagonia as a whole.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}

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.

Carlos J. Gradin was born in 1918 and died in 2002,References to the death of Carlos J. Gradin:

• {{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}}
• {{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}}
• [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/15777827.pdf Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología XXXII] (PDF), 2007. Buenos Aires.{{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}}{{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 }} making him 83 years old at the time of his death.

Gradin has an Archaeological Museum named after him in Perito Moreno, Argentina.{{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| 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)| url-access=subscription}}{{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 }}{{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}}{{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}} As of 2019, the building is still under construction.{{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}}

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• {{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}}

• [http://historiasprimarias.com/museo-de-arqueologia-carlos-gradin/ Museo De Arqueología "Carlos Gradín"] ["Carlos Gradín" Museum of Archeology] (in Spanish){{snd}}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){{snd}}a brochure for the new Carlos J. Gradin Museum of Archeology

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