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Regional Integration and Ceramic Consumption in the Border Region of Bolivia and Argentina (ca. AD 1000–1450)

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Ester Echenique Open the ORCID record for Ester Echenique [Opens in a new window] ,
Axel E. Nielsen ,
Florencia Avila  and
William Gilstrap
Ester Echenique*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Alta Investigación. Universidad de Tarapacá, Antofagasta 1520, Arica, Chile
Axel E. Nielsen
Affiliation:
CONICET, Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano, 3 de febrero 1378, CABA, Argentina
Florencia Avila
Affiliation:
CONICET, Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano, 3 de febrero 1378, CABA, Argentina
William Gilstrap
Affiliation:
Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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(esterecheniquellovet@gmail.com, corresponding author)
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Abstract

This article investigates the mechanisms by which different communities were articulated during the Late Intermediate period (ca. AD 1000–1450) in the Río Grande de San Juan Basin, also called the Chicha Region, located in the border region of Bolivia and Argentina. Through analyses of systems of pottery production, circulation, and consumption, we examine interaction networks, social integration, and alliance building at a regional level. Yavi-Chicha pottery from two sites in the Chicha Region—Chipihuayco, in the Talina Valley (Bolivia), and Finispatria, in San Juan Mayo (Argentina)—provide key insights into regional integration and constellations of practice through their localized technological style and shared consumption strategies. This study reveals that people of Finispatria incorporated the entire Yavi-Chicha-style household assemblage—partly produced in Chipihuayco, partly in Finispatria, or partly at some unknown location—into their everyday lives. We argue that the entire household ceramic repertoire of the study region played a fundamental and socially integrative role as it circulated across the region.

En este trabajo investigamos los mecanismos por los cuales diferentes comunidades se articularon durante el Periodo Intermedio Tardío (ca. 1000–1450 dC) en la región Chicha o la cuenca del Río Grande de San Juan (frontera Argentina-boliviana). Para ello, desarrollamos un análisis de los sistemas de producción, circulación y consumo de cerámica, desde estudios macroscópicos y arqueométricos, con el fin de entender las redes de interacción, integración social y la construcción de alianzas a un nivel regional. La cerámica Yavi-Chicha de dos sitios arqueológicos de la región Chicha: Chipihuayco, en el valle de Talina (Bolivia), y Finispatria, en San Juan Mayo (Argentina) proporciona antecedentes claves para visualizar procesos de integración regional y constelaciones de práctica mediante la combinación de estilos tecnológicos y estrategias compartidas de consumo. Este estudio plantea que los habitantes de Finispatria integraron a su vida cotidiana el repertorio habitacional completo Yavi-Chicha, en su mayoría producido en Chipihuayco y en parte producido en Finispatria o de origen desconocido. Sugerimos que el componente cerámico habitacional Yavi-Chicha jugó un rol de integración social fundamental en la medida que circuló en la región mediante prácticas compartidas de consumo.

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communityregional integrationtechnological styleprovenancepetrographyneutron activation analysiscomunidadintegración regionalestilos tecnológicosprocedenciapetrografíaanálisis por activación neutrónica

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 99 - 119
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