Abstract

OTS, María José. Archaeological survey of las Tunas River Valley: Tupungato-Tunuyán, Mendoza. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2005, n.29, pp.43-60. ISSN 1668-8104.

We present in this paper the results of the systematic surveys carried out in the river De las Tunas valley in Valle de Uco, in Mendoza province. Our objective is the study of the area from the regional archaeological perspective, integrating the sites investigations with the contributions of the distributional archaeology, off site, to identify the transformations and the continuities in the prehistoric occupation of the regional landscape.    We adopt the methodology proposed by the distributional studies that it consisted on the prospecting of the microregion selected by means of transects for the pedestrian, intensive and systematic inspection of the different sectors of the landscape; and the registration -position, mensuration, systematic gatherings, samplings, mapping- of the environmental conditions and the "isolated finds" and artifact concentrations.    In spite of their limitations as for the chronological precision and sites functionality, we identify settelment patterns and use of the landscape in the different stages of the regional prehistory that could indicate increase and population's mobility and technological and cultural change.

Keywords : Distributional archaeology; Regional archaeology; Cultural change; Landscape and population; Archaeological survey.

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