Abstract

IGARETA, Ana  and  SUMAVIL, Matías Ramiro. Colonial buildings in the account of 16th and 17th chroniclers: an archeological approach. An. Inst. Arte Am. Investig. Estét. Mario J. Buschiazzo [online]. 2021, vol.51, n.2, pp.1-10. ISSN 2362-2024.

Recently Northwestern Argentinian archaeology got interested in the analysis of colonial architecture, materials and construction systems, but little work has been done to identify builders. It was proposed that indigenous people were the workforce of the constructive activity at cities founded in the region during the 16th and 17th centuries. The present work explores an alternative hypothesis: indigenous were only a percentage of the colonial builders and African slaves, European and Creole also carried out the task. Preliminary results shows that colonial architecture would have been the result of the articulation of much more diverse practices than previously estimated.

Keywords : chronicles; colonial architecture; workforce; know-how; Argentinian northwest; XVIth and XVIIth Centuries.

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