Connecting built places and its uses in peasants societies from ancient lithic technology (in Amaicha del Valle, Argentine)

CAROLINA SOMONTE

Washington (EEUU)

Congreso; 5 World Archaeological Congress; 2003

Comité del World Archaeological Congress

In this paper it is analized the use of space in relation to lithic artefacts production and/or the discarded of them from the analysis of artefactual assemblages which proceed from two archaeological sites located in a bankrupt of Amaicha del Valle (Tucumán, Argentine). This bankrupt presents typical characteristics of semiarid environment. The archaeological sites show plurality of spaces, built and not built, used by societies in the past. In one hand, the site called Campo Blanco conforms an unbounded space which lacks -surfacely at least- architecture that had taken place there. This unbuilt place is inmerse into a built place, called Bajo Los Cardones site, conformated by heterogenues assemblage of stone archaeological structures which are morfologically different and vinculated from an Earlier Formative moment. Specifically, the objetive of this paper is to investigate how, both sites, had been integrated in activities system such as lithic artefacts production and/or discarded of them.