Ansilta Culture Precious metal objects of the
Ansilta culture of Argentina - 1800 BCE (BC) - 800 CE (AD)
Ansilta silver daggers
The Ansilta culture, of Los Morrillos
de Ansilta, in San Juan department, is one of
the great mysteries or riddles of Argentina archeology. Very little is
known about these people who inhabited Argentina for more than 2000 years
(from 1,800 BC to possibly 800 AD), one of the most extensive periods which
are known in the history of pre-Columbian peoples.
The area they settled is the Cordillera de Ansilta, in the current
Argentinean province of San Juan, from the high Andean peaks to the valleys
east of them. Strangely, while other cultures west of the Andes were
building major cities, the Ansilta never even built villages.
They appeared to live in caves!
In a region with difficult climatic conditions, the Ansilta based their
livelihoods mostly on hunting and gathering, coupled with a weak agriculture
that grew year around by the year 500 AD.
Ansilta was a culture whose earliest traits are linked to southern Peru and
the northern coast of Chile. There was no real plateau in
Ansilta cultural traits, with unlike its contemporaries of the cultures of
Chiripa and Tiawanaco (Bolivia).
Yet, as evidenced by recent finds, they
understood metallurgy.
Belen Culture Precious metal objects of the
Belen (& Santa Maria) culture of Catamarca Argentina - 1000-1450 CE (AD)
Belen Culture Bronze disc
28 cm
Belen Bronze Design
Belen Bronze Disc
Belen Bronze Design Motifs
Disc with four
anthropomorphic faces. Bronze. Catamarca.
Bronze Disc
Known as the "Disco de
Lafone Quevedo" from Andalgalα.
Aguada
Bronze Plaques & Discs:
a) Placa de Beni; b) Placa Hirsch I; c) Placa del Musιe de l'Homme; d) Placa
de Denver; e) Placa Lafone Quevedo; f) sin datos, en Scott 1998
Cultures and Archaeological regions of Northeastern
Argentina
Jujuy Culture Precious metal objects of the
Jujuy Culture of Catamarca Argentina
Bronze Axe
Jujuy is a province of
Argentina, located in the extreme northwest of the country, at the borders
with Chile and Bolivia. The only neighboring Argentine province is Salta to
the east and south.
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