Abstract

QUESADA, Marcos et al. LANDSCAPE AND EXPERIENCE IN OYOLA AT THE END OF THE FIRST MILLENNIUM AD (DEPARTMENT EL ALTO, CATAMARCA). Comechingonia [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.2, pp.1-10. ISSN 1851-0027.

Through many decades of archaeological research, the mountain of El Alto-Ancasti, in the eastern side of the Catamarca province (Argentina), have been recognized by the great number of rock shelters with prehispanic paints and engraves. Without neglect the importance of these caves and shelters, in this work we concentrate in characterizing and contrasting two different and complementary landscapes: one associated with the shelters with rock art, nucleated in the area known as Cerro de Oyola, and another villager and agricultural, arranged in the adjacent lower space. In this context, we describe the different aspects of the archaeological record that constitute each of these spaces, such as housing structures, agricultural terraces, milling artifacts and certain contrasts in the rock art assemblages detected in each place. Finally, we argue that there are some differences in the material ways of constructing these landscapes that could correspond to diverse, articulated and interdependent ways of inhabiting them.

Keywords : space experience; mountain of El Alto-Ancasti; Landscape Archaeology; peasant landscapes.