Archeology of Colonial Experience from a House in the Southern Andean Puna: Tensions and Disputes around Domestic Reproduction (Punta de la Peña 3-Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca, Argentina)
摘要
This article examines the colonial experience in the highlands of the Governorate of Tucumán, Viceroyalty of Peru (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries). Drawing on archaeology of colonialism as a critical discourse grounded in empirical evidence, we revisit interpretations of the Puna as a marginal refuge and its historical continuity. By integrating written documentation and archaeological contexts from Puna households at Punta de la Peña (Quebrada del río Las Pitas, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Argentina), we explore Hispanic-Indigenous relations. Analysis of domestic spaces reveals a locally rooted mode of production that subordinates foreign material goods to local logics, evidencing agency and asymmetric negotiation.