Agro-pastoral plots and practices in Ambato Valley, Catamarca (VI-XI AD) by Laguens, Andrés, Figueroa, Germán G., Dantas, Mariana

“…Recent investigations have led to argue that in the Ambato Valley, Catamarca, between the sixth and tenth centuries AD, the existence of a network of productive practices that simultaneously included and ar-ticulated plant and camelid breeding practices in the same space and with the same infrastructure, was sha-ped as a single agro-pastoral practice of animal, vegetable, and fodder production. This economic practice merged into a single web of relationships different ways of doing until then hold as autonomous economic strategies with independent historical trajectories, articulating in a mutualistic logic the production of plants and animals for consumption (human and animal). …”
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