Reconstructing Inca Socioeconomic Organization through Biography Analyses of Residential Houses and Workshops of Pucara de Tilcara (Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentine)

• Autores: Otero, Clarisa; Tarragó, Myriam Noemí
• Año de publicación: 2017
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology; 5; 1; 55-72; https://doi.org/10.15640/jaa.v5n1a6
• Materia: Inca domination; Specialized production; Household biography; Contextual analysis; South Central Andes
• Institución: Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras

Fil: Otero, Clarisa. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. Instituto de Geología y Minería; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto Interdisciplinario Tilcara; Argentina
Fil: Tarragó, Myriam Noemí. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Instituto de las Culturas; Argentina
This paper presents a micro-structural analysis from a house of the Pucara de Tilcara, one of the most important archaeological sites of the Argentina northwestern region. These results reconstruct the biography of a dwelling space during the last pre-Hispanic period. Beyond its constitution like a preinca dwell space we identify its reconfiguration to become a house-workshop for the production of luxury goods after Inca domination, and its posterior abandonment and reoccupation as a burial place. We compare this residential unit with another structures excavated in early 20th century, that also had been occupied as house-workshops. Available evidences have allowed us to estimate the social-economic organization of the Pucara de Tilcara and to advance in the characterization of the Inca domination in the region. We suggest that the Pucara de Tilcara was a main production center destined to specifically enlarge some local technology and to develop new production within the lapidary industry.
Otero, C. y Tarrago, M. N. (2017). Reconstructing Inca Socioeconomic Organization through Biography Analyses of Residential Houses and Workshops of Pucara de Tilcara (Quebrada de Humahuaca, Argentine). Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology, 5(1), 55-72.