Mid-Holocene human occupations in Tucumán (Northwest Argentina)

MARTÍNEZ, JORGE G.; MAURI, E. P.; MERCURI, C.; CARIA MARIO A.; OLISZEWSKI NURIT

QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Lugar: Londres; Año: 2012

1040-6182

In this paper we present the results of recent archaeological research carried out in Quebrada de Los Corrales, a high altitude ravine in the west-central region of Tucumán province, in northwest of Argentina. Most of the information for this area is given for the period ca. 1750-1560 BP, within the frame of agro-pastoralist societies that produced their own food. Nevertheless, recent radiocarbon dating from Taller Puesto Viejo 1 site, has confirmed the presence of human settlements from at least the middle Holocene in this ravine, extending the antiquity of the hunter-gatherers groups. This area is located over 3000 m asl in the Aconquija mountain system, and did not until now count with such time depth. This evidence open an interesting view that will allow us to broaden up the knowledge about the early hunter-gatherers societies for this part of the valleys in the northwest Argentina.