Household dynamics and the reproduction of early village societies in Northwest Argentina (200BC-AD 350).

JULIÁN SALAZAR

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Congreso; 82 SAA Annual Meeting; 2017

SAA

Long term evolutionary narratives on South Andean pre-Columbian history have stressed lineal processes of complexity intensification, defined by big changes on subsistence strategies, from small and egalitarian hunter gatherer groups to complex multicommunitarian chiefdoms. These changes were thought to influence or even determine the structure of household and consequently daily life of people. In this contribution I present new researches on early villager settlements from the valleys and eastern slopes of the South Andes addressing the material dynamics of houses and the constitution of collectives which allowed the formation of early villages.