Abstract

ELIAS, Alejandra M.  and  ESCOLA, Patricia S.. LITHIC TECHNICAL PRACTICES AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF MIRIGUACA RAVINE WITHIN THE LATE SOCIOPOLITICAL CONTEXT OF ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA (SOUTHERN ARGENTINE PUNA). Relaciones [online]. 2018, vol.43, n.1, pp.1-10. ISSN 0325-2221.

During the Late Period (ca. 1100-550 years BP), different social groups coexisted in Antofagasta de la Sierra (Southern Argentine Puna), some at the bottom basin of the micro-region and others at the ravines of the Punilla river's tributaries. Some tendencies in lithic artefactual assemblages from various sites support this proposal. In this instance, we focus on tendencies obtained from the technical-morphological and morphological-functional analysis of lithic evidence from Corral Alto, a late site at the Miriguaca river's middle course. These tendencies are discussed within the micro-regional late sociopolitical context, considering technology as a set of daily practices carried out by subjects imbricated in specific social, economic and material relationships. They allow pointing out the continuity of some formative lithic technical practices among Las Pitas and Miriguaca ravines' inhabitants, and differences between these and those of the basin bottom groups.

Keywords : sociopolitical dynamics - material styles - technical styles - NOA Late Period - Southern Argentine Puna.

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