Habitar, circular, hacer. El punto de vista de La Quebrada.

SCATTOLIN, MARIA CRISTINA; BUGLIANI, M. FABIANA; PEREYRA DOMINGORENA, LUCAS; CORTES, L. I.; LAZZARI, MARISA; IZETA, ANDRES DARIO; CALO, C. MARILIN

Crónicas materiales precolombinas. Arqueología de los primeros poblados del Noroeste Argentino

SAA

Año: 2015; p. 427 - 464

We present our team research work on village societies of the southern Calchaquí valleys area. We examine regional archaeology over the long term combining several lines of evidence: habitats, ways of doing, practices of circulation, and networks of interaction. This chapter is centered in the area of La Quebrada with the purpose of exploring how localities were built as ´places from where the world is looked at´; that is, as material configurations strongly localized yet open and flexible that participated in wider material, social and symbolic entanglements. La Quebrada is situated in the occidental slope of the Cajón Valley, encompassing the sites of Cardonal and Bordo Marcial. The village of Yutopián is located a few kilometers to the north. All three sites are very informative of Formative Period life ways, everyday practices, and of people?s own perspective of inhabiting and perceiving in past Andean worlds. This work will discuss evidences gathered in these specific places within a wider frame of other contemporary archaeological occupations of the area, such as those from the western flanks of the Aconquija Sierra and the Santa María Valley. This research is based upon diverse methods, such as the technological study of artefacts, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, physical and chemical analysis (AANI, stable isotopes, DRX, EDAX), chronometric and spatial analysis. The main objective is to understand the changes in the mechanisms of interaction, production, consumption and representation through time, in order to comprehend the specific dynamic by which societies of this period constituted their everyday local worlds in entangled ways.