Historiographic analysis of the construction of the early peasant societies of the valliserrana area as an archaeological research object

Abstract

First Millennium AD peasant societies have been a main archaeological research object addressed by Argentinean archaeology. Upon their study there have been generated narratives, concepts and theoretical models that resulted on the formalization of narratives for the understanding of pre-Hispanic past. This paper presents a historiographic analysis of the main archaeological narratives that have set out narratives about this process, drawing attention to three topics: the scale of the analysis, the social change concept, and the role of materiality. This explains the trajectories of the different contexts of knowledge production and critically revises the vision that considers the explanation of these phenomena under the categories of Early or Formative Period.