Sociedades prehispánicas de la Puna argentina: desde el poblamiento temprano hasta los inicios de la producción pastoril y agrícola

Book Chapter

Authorship

MARTINEZ, JORGE GABRIEL

Date

2019

Publishing House and Editing Place

Fundación Miguel Lillo

Book

La Puna Argentina: Naturaleza y Cultura (pp. 273-294)
Fundación Miguel Lillo

ISBN

978-950-668-034-3

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The northwest of Argentina has historically been one of the most intensely researched areas from the point of view of prehis-panic archaeology, with scientific work in this topic since the late 19th century. We currently have a large corpus of information based on numerous studies developed especially in the last decades, which allow us to affirm that the first human occupations go back almost 11,000 years. Although the Puna represents only a third of the total area of northwest Argentina, unti... The northwest of Argentina has historically been one of the most intensely researched areas from the point of view of prehis-panic archaeology, with scientific work in this topic since the late 19th century. We currently have a large corpus of information based on numerous studies developed especially in the last decades, which allow us to affirm that the first human occupations go back almost 11,000 years. Although the Puna represents only a third of the total area of northwest Argentina, until now it has been the ecoregion that concentrates almost all the prehispanic evidence for the period 11,000-3,000 years ago. In this chapter we present an updated summary of the most relevant aspects about the long sequence of human occupations occurring in the Argentine Puna, which began in the late Pleistocene with groups that based their subsistence on wild animal hunting and gathering of various types of plants. This cultural process will be considered here until the time when hunter-gatherer societies began to experiment and incorporate pastoralist and agricultural production practices ca. 4,000 years ago.