Sitios arqueológicos rurales en campos serranos del suroeste de la provincia de Córdoba, Argentina

Abstract

This presentation addresses research on rural archaeological sites in the south of the Comechingones Mountains, Department of Río Cuarto, Province of Córdoba. During the late colonial period, more than a third of the population of the Curato del Río Cuarto lived in the mountain fields, mainly in the foothills. Archaeological investigations of rural sites in the highlands began in the region in the late 1990s. The sites located so far have a chronological location between 1770 and 1970 and different states in relation to the research progress in each of them. We present a general characterization of the studies carried out in a polygon that extends along the mountain range, the foothills and around the isolated hills of the border of the Comechingones Mountains, outlining stages in their development.