Agriculture and ritual in the 1000 BP human landscape of the Quebrada de Humahuaca headwaters:: casas grandes site (Jujuy, Argentina)
This paper presents the archeological investigations at the Casas Grandes site, which were carried out as part of a regional research project that encompasses the headwaters of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, where it intersects the Puna. This is an ecotone and environmental threshold that occurs in this...
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Archaeology Department of the School of Anthropology, Faculty of the Humanities and Arts, National University of Rosario
2021
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| Sumario: | This paper presents the archeological investigations at the Casas Grandes site, which were carried out as part of a regional research project that encompasses the headwaters of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, where it intersects the Puna. This is an ecotone and environmental threshold that occurs in this part of Jujuy Province, Argentina. It is presented here a synthesis of the project´s general framework, the scales of analysis (spatial and temporal) and the main points of the theoretical and methodological approaches employed. A discussion about the characteristics of the site, its geomorphology, the sectors into which it is divided, and the archaeological evidence recovered is also presented. The different types of findings and their analyses are discussed, focusing on the site´s lower sector, where the evidence recovered provides valuable information about economic and ritual practices from around 1000 BP. On the basis of these studies and the radiocarbon dates obtained, a general discussion about the articulation of this site and others studied within the same project is presented. The relevance of this site within the context of the archaeology of the Quebrada de Humahuaca and the Jujuy Puna is assessed by comparing and integrating the site´s evidence with that from contemporary sites in those two geo-environmental zones. |
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