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

SCATTOLIN M. CRISTINA, LETICIA CORTÉS, MA. FABIANA BUGLIANI, MARILIN CALO, LUCAS PEREYRA DOMINGORENA, ANDRÉS IZETA Y MARISA LAZZARI

World Archaeology

Routledge

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 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 fluid with the contingencies of life.