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This article focuses on the architectural characteristics of a household compound in Cardonal, an early agricultural village located in the southern Cajon Valley (Catamarca, north-western Argentina) dated to the first centuries AD. When architecture, as landscape, is understood as the result of the daily tasks of living, the research carried out in Cardonal gives substance to the ways in which the materiality of everyday life forged the building of this prehistoric village. Cardonal is an example of how houses and architecture are not static but fluidly changing with the contingencies of life. Keywords Architecture; household; agrarian villages; north-western Argentina; Southern Andes; Formative period.

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ABSTRACT Approaching the study of camelid bone size change in the meridional portion of the South Central Andes is a significant subject especially when the assemblages are associated to radiocarbon dates placed at a time of social transition from an extractive to a producer economy. In this sense, this paper presents the results of applying osteometric techniques on a set of 10 elements from the Peñas Chicas 1.5 site dated around 3800 BP. The analysis shows the presence of at least three individuals, one of which corresponds to an Andean guanaco ( Lama guanicoe) morphotype. The second and the third are similar in size to a modern llama ( Lama glama) in their 'intermediate' and 'cargo' morphotypes. This is consistent with patterns already seen for sites from the Argentinian and Chilean Puna where the identification of larger individuals than the Andean guanaco modern standard shows the early stages of an increasingly bone size variability of South American camelids. This paper contributes with new data to understand the complex processes that occurred in the South Central Andes that led to the domestication of one of the most conspicuous animals in the archaeological record of the Argentinian Northwest. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the past five years we proposed, based on an isotopic perspective, three strategies related with the feeding of South American camelids for different Northwestern Argentina first millennia AD archaeological sites. Those were defined as free range feeding habits, a mixed feeding strategy (free range + management) and a third one related to human management in the animal access to alimentary resources. Following this line of research, new data is presented for an area located in a different environment of those previously studied. This one is characterized as a transition area between the Puna Highlands and the lower temperate valleys. This ecological setting and the isotopic values obtained on camelids bone collagen shows a tendency slightly different as the observed in the others areas. The results shows a mixed diet based both on C3 and C4 plants different from Puna Highlands (where C3 predominates) and lower valleys (where C4 plants are more frequent). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]