This paper presents the contextual relationships in which certain intervened rocks were recovered in Mortero Quebrado, an early village settlement from the first millennium of the Christian era on the eastern slope of the Cumbres Calchaquíes (in the northwest of the province of Tucumán, Argentine Republic). In the surveying and excavation tasks carried out in three of the seven residential units that make up the settlement, 16 lithic blocks with different types of interventions have been recovered, in heterogeneous contextual situations and stages of their trajectory. This case allows to contribute to the knowledge about the links between these objects and domestic life, and to discuss their active participation in the configuration of the social structures that shaped the early village societies.
Keywords:
intervened rocks, household autonomy, Cumbres Calchaquies, early village societies
Franco Salvi, V., Montegú, J., & Salazar, J. (2020). Time and presence of intervened rocks in the domestic world. A view from Mortero Quebrado site (ca. 1-600 AD). Revista Chilena De Antropología, (42), 237–259. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2020.60492
