Marks on the floor. Instant and memory in the foundation of an agro-pastoralist place in the Puna high desert, Northwest Argentina (ca. 1500 BP)

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2025.101657

Pilar Babot, Álvaro Martel

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A set of visual representations and marks made on the red plastered floor within a domestic enclosure, are analyzed. They belong to low scale agro-pastoralist societies that inhabited the Argentine Puna in the South Central Andes, ca. 1500 BP. The prepared floor would have configured a proper surface for a multisensory ritual performance. This type of material is reserved for specific places such as graves and offering deposits in the study area. The drawn visual representations are interpreted as to lineage emblems and, due to restricted visual access, they would pertain to the private sphere and therefore, would be aimed at communication within the social group. They are analyzed within the framework of ritual archaeology and feasting to propose that they could be part of the ritualization of the domestic place as an ordering element of the social group, and as a way of claiming the family territory. Shortly after its complex ritual closure, the enclosure was used for the confinement of Camelidae livestock. The ritual performance and the subsequent story of the enclosure in productive practices would have been significant actions in a context of environmental deterioration that could have affected the availability of fertile spaces in the region.

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期刊介绍： An innovative, international publication, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is devoted to the development of theory and, in a broad sense, methodology for the systematic and rigorous understanding of the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies. The discipline served by the journal is characterized by its goals and approach, not by geographical or temporal bounds. The data utilized or treated range from the earliest archaeological evidence for the emergence of human culture to historically documented societies and the contemporary observations of the ethnographer, ethnoarchaeologist, sociologist, or geographer. These subjects appear in the journal as examples of cultural organization, operation, and evolution, not as specific historical phenomena.