Habitar, circular, hacer. El punto de vista de La Quebrada

M. CRISTINA SCATTOLIN; BUGLIANI, MARÍA FABIANA; PEREYRA DOMINGORENA, LUCAS; CORTÉS, LETICIA INÉS; LAZZARI, MARISA; IZETA, ANDRÉS; CALO, MARILIN

Crónicas materiales precolombinas. Arqueología de los primeros poblados del NO Argentino

Sociedad Argentina de Antropologia

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2015; p. 427 - 464

This chapter presents our team?s ongoing research on early village societies inthe southern Calchaquí Valleys area. We examine regional archaeology over thelong term combining several lines of evidence: habitats, ways of doing, practices of circulation, and networks of interaction.Focusing on the area of La Quebrada, the chapter explores how localities were built as ?places from where the world is looked at?; that is, as materialconfigurations that were strongly localized, yet also flexible and open to widermaterial, social, and symbolic entanglements.La Quebrada is situated on the western slope of the Cajón Valley, encompassingthe sites of Cardonal and Bordo Marcial. The village of Yutopián is located a few kilometers to the north. All three sites are very informative of Formative Period life ways and everyday practices, offering insight into people?s own perspectives of inhabiting and perceiving their surroundings in past Andean worlds. The chapter discusses evidence obtained at these specific places, in relation to other contemporary occupations in the area, such as early sites on the western flanks of the Aconquija Sierra and in the Santa María Valley.This research is based upon diverse methods, including the technological studyof artefacts, zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, physical and chemical analysis(AANI, stable isotopes, DRX, EDAX), chronometric and spatial analysis. Themain objective is to understand the changes in the mechanisms of interaction,production, consumption and representation through time, in order tounderstand the specific dynamics by which societies of this period constitutedtheir everyday local worlds in entangled ways.