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This paper aims to analyze the characteristics of herding settlements in the highlands of Jujuy province in northwestern Argentina. This analysis takes into account the logic of: siting, spatial layouts, the materiality of these settlements and in particular the way that topography shapes domestic architecture. These buildings have a specific meaning in the context of the settlement systems of pastoral groups in relation to the mobility strategies of families with flocks. The study is based on material from ethnographic fieldwork underway since 2004 in the town of Susques, which has involved a systematic survey of the different types of settlement as part of an investigation into spatiality and pastoral architecture in the Andes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Societies that lived during the Formative period in northwestern Argentina, have been interpreted as groups without social structural differences and with relations of interaction with each other. This sets up a scenario without social conflict, which would be reflected in the archaeological record. This paper presents the case of two individuals from the region of the Yungas pedemontanas of Jujuy, Argentina, with chronologies that ascribe the Formative Period (800 BC - 500 AD), with evidence of skull injuries which account the presence of interpersonal violence among groups traditionally called "San Francisco". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two known species of Neocalonyx genus are dealt with in (his paper, and one new species, N. diagttita sp. nov. from Jujuy province in Argentina is described.The characters considered in the three subgenera and the four species groups of one of them are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the province of Jujuy, located on the northern border of Argentina and Bolivia, the widespread image of the "Bolivian pregnant woman who crosses the border to give birth on the Argentine side" orders a great deal of the perceptions, views and ideals of many Argentineans. Themes relating to material resources, to rights of citizenship and to meanings and feelings of belonging appear in stories and statements that reject and condemn these women. How are we to interpret the reactions that these women's actions provoke? What fears and anxieties are provoked by such border crossing? This paper shows that Bolivian women who cross the border are seen as a societal disturbance, and embody a double threat to "integrity": to social integrity, understood as a system of regulated inequality, and to national/racial integrity, understood as a holistic ethnic community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]