Built landscapes of everyday life: a house in an early agricultural village of northwestern Argentina

SCATTOLIN, MARÍA CRISTINA; CORTÉS, LETICIA INÉS; BUGLIANI, MARÍA FABIANA; CALO, MARILIN; PEREYRA DOMINGORENA, LUCAS; IZETA, ANDRÉS D.; LAZZARI, MARISA

World Archaeology

Routledge

Lugar: London; Año: 2009 vol. 41 p. 396 - 414

0043-8243

The present article focuses on the architectural characteristics of a household compound in Cardonal, an early agricultural village located in the southern Cajón Valley (Catamarca, northwestern Argentina) dated to the first centuries AD. When architecture, as landscape, is understood as the result of the daily tasks of living, the research carried out in Cardonal gives substance to the ways in which the materiality of everyday-life forged the building of this prehistoric village. Cardonal is an example of how houses and architecture are not static but fluidly changing with the contingencies of life.