Gente, tierra, agua y cultivos: los primeros paisajes agrarios del Noroeste Argentino.

KORSTANJE, M.A.; QUESADA, M.; FRANCO SALVI, V.; LEMA, V.S.; MALOBERTI, M.

Crónicas materiales pre ? colombinas: arqueología de los primeros poblados del NO Argentino

Sociedad Argentina de Antropología

Año: 2015; p. 721 - 749

In this article we bring together knowledge concerning pre-Hispanic agriculture resultingfrom the work of different research groups pursuing various lines of evidence in differentareas. We reflect on the formation of the first agricultural landscapes in northwest Argentina,specifically on the way in which the relations between people, crops, water and land wereorganized in a particular spatiality during the period that has been defined as ?Formative?.Part of this reflection led us to revise some assumptions about plant production in theFormative period, trying to avoid traditional schemes that translate the pre-Hispanic historyinto evolutionary stages, each of them conceived as internally homogeneous and organizedunder a typological perspective. As a result of recent research, with the contribution of newmethodological and theoretical approaches, we think of agriculture in a broader sense thanthose assumed by previous research in the region, conceiving it as a way of doing and beingin a particular ambit with their social forms of appropriations. This leads us to considerthe continuities, breaks, overlaps and the multiples ways of dwelling within the productivelandscapes in regional agrarian history.