South Andes (Other Keyword)
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This paper gives a characterization of the ceramic styles as well as the forms and functions of vessels and, broadly, the production of pottery in the village societies that inhabited the southern Calchaquí Valleys (Northwestern Argentina) during Formative period and Middle Horizon (first millennium AD). The study of ceramics in Northwestern Argentina has traditionally been centred on descriptions, taking decorative motives as fundamental evidence in the definition of styles and periodization....
Early village dwellings and the reproduction of South Andean formative communities (2015)
Agriculture was adopted by NW Argentina inhabitants around BP 3500 within a complex process of macroregional population reorganization, economic intensification and increase of territoriality. This transition was followed by a rapid introduction of large and solid buildings that became the major and most visible features in the village outlays after BP 2500. Thousands of multi round-room compounds were built and inhabited by several generations all over several high valleys, like Tafí, Anfama,...