Abstract

GARCIA, Alejandro. EVALUATION OF THE INCA PRESENCE IN CENTRAL WEST ARGENTINA: THE SITES OF CONCONTA RAVINE (SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA). Comechingonia [online]. 2020, vol.24, n.3, pp.110-119. ISSN 1851-0027.

One of the main recent archaeological findings of San Juan was that of an articulated set of presumably Inca sites in an area devoid of evidence of that period. It is a series of structures and road sections located in the upper part of the Quebrada de Conconta, in the northwest of the province. The importance of the finding motivated its immediate inclusion in the list of sites of the International Project Qhapaq Ñan. However, a detailed analysis of this record allows us to provide a completely different interpretation. In this sense, this article deals with the global evaluation of all the information available on these sites, whose results show a different origin and chronology than those proposed.

Keywords : inca; inca domination; Collasuyu; San Juan.