The first Hispano-Indigenous archaeological project in the Humahuaca Rift Valley, Argentina

LÓPEZ, MARIEL ALEJANDRA

ANTIQUITY

Antiquity

Lugar: York; Año: 2005 vol. 79 p. 1 - 6

0003-598X

Objects of Hispanic origin dating to the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries AD have been found in funereal contexts in several indigenous sites within the Humahuaca Rift Valley. Until now, these scarce objects, which have still not been thoroughly analysed, have been the only indicators of early contact between Hispanic and Indigenous peoples. Due to the importance of this archaeological problem, a new research project has been established in order to analyse whether or not these objects formed correlated evidence of direct contact or were introduced through exchange of goods networks already in existence in the Andean world and within the region.