Material itinerarries: interregional circulation and social landscape in Calchaquí Valley (Salta Provinice)
Societies that inhabited the central Calchaquí valley during the first half of the second millennium A.D. participated in circuits of interregional interaction of various scope and singularity that allowed the circulation of goods and information to and from the valley. In this context, this paper a...
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Centro de Estudios Históricos. UA CONICET
2024
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/comechingonia/article/view/42467 https://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/suquia/175640 |
| Summary: | Societies that inhabited the central Calchaquí valley during the first half of the second millennium A.D. participated in circuits of interregional interaction of various scope and singularity that allowed the circulation of goods and information to and from the valley. In this context, this paper analyzes the trajectories of circulation and consumption of two material assemblies, snuff trays and tubes and ceramics, in order to assess the way in which they engaged into greater material and social webs.
The snuff artifacts showed strong morphological and iconographic similarities with specimens from other regions of Northwestern argentina and Northern Chile, showing a capacity to make distant places and relationships present in practice. On the other hand, in the Calchaquí ceramic ensemble, almost no foreign vessels and/or styles were observed, despite the fact that the populations of the valley participated in circuits of an interregional scale, which formed a setting without references to other material or social universes.
We consider that these differences responded to the complexity of the late social scenario, crossed by moments of conflict and social integration, which required the Calchaquí populations to constantly play between the reaffirmation of the local community and the integration into a larger sociopolitical space and as part of larger groups. |
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