ANALYSIS OF INTERSITE VISIBILITY FOR THE LATE AND INCA PERIOD OF THE NORTHERN CALCHAQUÍ VALLEY (SALTA, ARGENTINA) ANÁLISIS DE LA VISIBILIDAD INTERSITIO PARA EL PERÍODO TARDÍO E INCA DEL VALLE CALCHAQUÍ NORTE (SALTA, ARGENTINA)

PÁEZ, MARÍA CECILIA; JAKEL, ANDRÉS; LÓPEZ, LUCIANO

Comechingonia

Instituto de Estudios Historicos

Año: 2021 vol. 25 p. 229 - 246

0326-7911

The relationship between local and Inca organizational logics has been a constant focus of interest in the disciplinary field throughout the Andean area. In the northern Calchaquí Valley there is an important body of research that addresses the conformation of these landscapes. Our contribution in this sense lies in analyzing how the visibility between sites with local indigenous occupation and those that respond to state planning, would have conditioned the integration and physical and social articulation of the Calchaquí space. The results obtained suggest, on the one hand, that the Late Period sites would have been intervisible, showing a much greater management and integration of the environment than the Inca sites, for which a disruptive condition is presumed. On the other hand, it questions the idea that sites with Inca architecture would be located in sectors with a better visual management of the environment.