Desarrollos Regionales

It has been stated that societies that occupied the Argentinean Norwest during the Late Period were entities socially stratified. A specialized craft production serving an elite and the controlled exchange of luxury goods were their most remarkable characteristics. In sum, these were societies ruled by elites in competition for leadership and livelihood assets. The aim of this paper is to go beyond a negative position and to analyze this phenomenon from materialities that allow us to investigate this situation and generate alternative explanations from the presence of some evidence and not only from the lack of it.Thus, we propose that in societies whose material culture is roughly homogeneous, there are peculiarities that may be suggesting the existence of certain individuals who, because of their status or special abilities, have enjoyed some kind of prerogative, even if this was only temporal.

El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo brindar los resultados de una primera aproximación al análisis morfométrico y decorativo de un conjunto de vasijas cerámicas de estilo Sanagasta-Angualasto del Período de Desarrollos Regionales (1000 – 1480 AD) del área valliserrana. Las mismas forman parte de colecciones arqueológicas de distintas instituciones académicas y organismos públicos del país, cuyas procedencias en su mayoría corresponden a la provincia de La Rioja, y en menor medida al norte de San Juan y sur-oeste de Catamarca. Nuestra perspectiva se focaliza en comprender los criterios de análisis de forma integral, prestando especial atención a sus mutuas relaciones. De esta manera, los resultados permiten obtener una caracterización detallada de la heterogeneidad de formas de los recipientes cerámicos (cuencos, escudillas, jarras, ollas y tinajas), sus capacidades
volumétricas, como también una primera individualización y discriminación de los tipos de motivos y patrones decorativos que constituyen, en conjunto con las formas, dicho estilo.


The aim of this work is to offer the results of the first approximation to the morphometric and stylistic analysis of a set of Sangasta-Angualasto`s style pottery vessels and pucos
from the Regional Developments period (1000 – 1480 AD) of the valliserrana area. These vessels belong to archaeological collections from different academic institutions and public organisms of the country. The origin of most of them is from the province of La Rioja, and in lesser extent the smaller group to the north of San Juan and south of Catamarca.
Our perspective is focused on understanding the criteria of integrated analysis, paying particular attention to its mutual relations. Therefore, the results allow to obtain a detailed
characterization of the heterogeneity of forms of the different ceramic containers (bowls, jars, pots and vats), their volumetric capacities, as also the first individualization and discrimination of the types of motives and decorative bosses which constitute, as a whole with the forms, the above mentioned style.