Learning to be domestic? The earliest houses in the Eastern Slopes of the southern Andes (Anfama, Argentina).

FRANCISCO FRANCO; JUAN MONTEGÚ; JULIÁN SALAZAR; ROCÍO MOLAR

Berkeley

Congreso; 61st annual meeting of the Institute of Andean Studies; 2021

Institute of Andean Studies

Around 2300-2000 BP durable residential structures were constructed for the first time in Anfama (Tucumán, Argentina), a humid valley of the scarcely analized eastern slopes of the south-central Andes. The emergence of built environments implied the development of an unprecedented social universe within which people, houses, plants, animals, wankas, artifacts, and regional exchange networks were articulated, which has traditionally been known as the regional formative period. We present a case study discussing the diverse relations between productives economies, mobility strategies and social complexity. Upon multiple material analysis in three dated residential compounds we discuss the archaeological expectations of precedent narratives.