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

SCATTOLIN M. CRISTINA; BUGLIANI, M. FABIANA; PEREIRA DOMINGORENA, LUCAS; CORTÉS, LETICIA; LAZZARI, MARISA; IZETA, ANDRÉS D.; CALO, CRISTINA MARILIN

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

Sociedad Argentina de Antropología

Año: 2015; p. 427 - 464

This chapter presents our team's ongoing research on early village societies inthe southern Calchaquí Valleys area. We examine regional archaeology over thelong term combining several lines of evidence: habitats, ways of doing, practicesof circulation, and networks of interaction.Focusing on the area of La Quebrada, the chapter explores how localitieswere built as 'places from where the world is looked at'; that is, as materialconfigurations that were strongly localized, yet also flexible and open to widermaterial, social, and symbolic entanglements.La Quebrada is situated on the western slope of the Cajón Valley, encompassingthe sites of Cardonal and Bordo Marcial. The village of Yutopián is located a fewkilometers to the north. All three sites are very informative of Formative Periodlife ways and everyday practices, offering insight into people?s own perspectivesof inhabiting and perceiving their surroundings in past Andean worlds. Thechapter discusses evidence obtained at these specific places, in relation to othercontemporary occupations in the area, such as early sites on the western flanksof the Aconquija Sierra and in the Santa María Valley.This research is based upon diverse methods, including the technological studyof artefacts, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, physical and chemical analysis(AANI, stable isotopes, DRX, EDAX), chronometric and spatial analysis. Themain objective is to understand the changes in the mechanisms of interaction,production, consumption and representation through time, in order tounderstand the specific dynamics by which societies of this period constitutedtheir everyday local worlds in entangled ways.