Dwelling in republican context in Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentine southern Puna. An approach from textile materiality

This paper intends to account for and define negotiation spaces in contexts of social, political, and economic transformation, through the study of textile materiality. In this way, we analyzed a historical textile assemblage recovered from one of the false vault structures located at the archaeological site of Peñas Coloradas 3 summit. This site is located on top of a crag in the middle-lower course of Las Pitas’ river, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca. The different architectural structures have been assigned to the Late-Inca period (900-1490 A.D.), but some of them have been reused during the republican context (1800-1900 A.D.). Radiocarbon dating, techno-productive features, and the excavation context date the textile evidence in the last two centuries of the second millennia. From the technological analysis of the textile selected sample we observe the combination of different technological traditions (industrial/artisanal) in the same piece. This particular trait is interpreted as a response of the Puna people to the social and political changes in the context of the territorial organization of modern states. In this sense, the results of our work suggest the persistence of textile materiality related to punean identities, in a new sociopolitical context.

• Main Author: Martinez, María Soledad
• Format: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• Language: spa
• Published: Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires 2020
• Subjects: Historical textiles; Negotiation spaces; Persistence; Textiles históricos; Espacios de negociación; Persistencia
• Online Access: http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/5885