20235504(en)/1 - Assemblages, Multiple Temporalities, and Pre-Hispanic Practical Traditions. The Archaeological Record of El Sunchal (Anfama, Tucumán, Argentina)
ASSEMBLAGES, MULTIPLE TEMPORALITIES, AND PRE-HISPANIC PRACTICAL TRADITIONS. THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD OF EL SUNCHAL (ANFAMA, TUCUMÁN, ARGENTINA)
ENSAMBLAJES, TEMPORALIDADES MÚLTIPLES Y TRADICIONES PRÁCTICAS PREHISPÁNICAS. EL REGISTRO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE EL SUNCHAL (ANFAMA, TUCUMÁN, ARGENTINA)
Francisco Franco, Juan M. Montegú, Gonzalo Moyano, Rocío Molar, Agustina V. Fiorani, Stefanía Chiavassa Arias, Agustina Etchegoin Tonello, Lucía Justiniano, Lucía de Salazar, Valeria Franco Salvi and Julián Salazar
This paper characterizes material practices as a result of the complex interplay between assemblages, time, and environment at the archaeological site of El Sunchal (Anfama, Tucumán). To this end, we present the results of different lines of research, including architectural characterizations together with stratigraphic, radiocarbon, ceramic, and lithic analyses. These have revealed multiple occupation events that allow us to address the recurrence in the use of space of different socio-temporal processes that began around ca. 2000 BP and extended to late pre-Hispanic times around ca. 550 BP. The asynchrony in the occupational sequence enables us to investigate the dynamics of the architectural, ceramic, and lithic technical traditions, evaluating the continuities and changes over time, and their implications in relation to the social memory of the groups that lived there. The results obtained as a whole suggest a relatively intense process of territorialization that occurred between ca. 2000 and 1500 BP, followed by milder pulses of intensity at later times.
