El Formativo en la Puna Meridional: de la opción productiva a las sociedades agropastoriles plenas.

OLIVERA, DANIEL; ESCOLA, PATRICIA; ELIAS, ALEJANDRA; PEREZ, SUSANA; TCHILINGUIRIAN, PABLO; SALMINCI, PEDRO; PEREZ, MARTINA; GRANA, LORENA; GRANT, JENNIFER; VIDAL, AIXA; KILLIAN GALVAN, VIOLETA; MIRANDA, PAULA

Crónicas materiales precolombinas. Arqueología de los primeros poblados del Noroeste Argentino

Sociedad Argentina de Antropología

Lugar: Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires; Año: 2015; p. 663 - 691

In Antofagasta de la Sierra (southern Puna of Argentina), between ca. 10000- 5000 years BP, the economy of human groups was oriented to the hunting and gathering of wild plants and animals. These societies generated significant changes, most notably the adoption of camelid herding and agriculture from ca. 5000/4500 years BP onwards, which probably resulted from an earlier camelid domestication process. The incorporation of this productive option into the lifestyle of these groups carried significant changes in their economy and diet, as well as profound changes in social organization and symbolism. These changes were reflected in new patterns of mobility and use of space as well as changes in technology, patterns of social and political relationships, mythical/symbolic cosmovision, and even biological effects on reproduction and human metabolism. These processes, which developed alongside a changing environmental framework that influenced the supply and availability of subsistence resources for humans, led to a new kind of society generally known as Formative. This paper summarizes the investigations focused on Formative communities/groups that since 1983 have been carried out in this hitherto understudied region, exposing the questions that have led the study of this complex regional process and the progress made so far.