Multiple Temporalities in the Andean Eastern Piedmont Landscape (Tucuman Province, Argentina).

VALERIA L. FRANCO SALVI; JULIÁN SALAZAR; CARRASCO, DANA

Washington, DC

Congreso; SAA 83 ANNUAL MEETING; 2018

SAA

The study focused on the construction of the early village landscape in the Northwest of Argentina, resulting in the identification of multiple temporalities that cross-cut it. This contrasts with previous chronological approaches that conceived the historical development of such villages in a linear and unitemporal fashion. This dissertation will discuss the relevance of multitemporal perspectives in order to understand social and political transformations in the long term process and the reproduction of social practices in the microscale, emphasizing the role played by ancestor veneration. Furthermore, we are interested on the diversity of material features in which ancestors were represented (v.g. cist tombs, huancas or menhirs, statuettes, figurines, sculptures) with the purpose of generating measurable and testable data about this kind of archaeological record.