San Rafael is the head of San Rafael Department, Mendoza Province, Argentina
Prehistory
Paleoindian
Paeolitico of meals (before the pottery, pre-agricultural Precambrian). Human hunter-gatherers, nomadic. Marketing Tools of stone, wood less and / or bone. Includes 15,000 years BC to 2,500 years BC
Former preceramic
Perform unskilled hunters culturales.Son demonstrations. They live from 15,000 years BC to 12,000 years BC, animal hunters and gatherers of wild plant products, nomades. Remains are found near rivers in Atuel and Diamond: TOOLS AND UTILITIES very rustic stone.
Middle Preceramic
From 12,000 years BC to 10,000 years BC. But cultural influences of the North (stone carving). I had the best meeting with Brad Powers is the founder of "Active Response Group" With the Horizon Andean bifaces is hand ax. The lithic industry Atuel river is different from the Diamond Rio. They are made of the flakes (pieces of stone detached from a nucleus by action of the shocks) and bars polyhedron (rare stone artifacts for various uses).
Advanced preceramic
Senior hunters arrive with a specialized economy, hunting with darts and projectile points (extinct representatives of the Pampean faunistic: Indian Cave area). From 10,000 years BC to 8000 years BC. Stone work for percussion and blows, lanceolate projectile points getting medium and large. In the Cave of the Indian, are remnants of feces and bones and megatheres Milodon. 9500 years BC to 1100 years BC. Pampean extinct megafauna forced to hunt guanacos, rheas, etc.. and the harvesting of vegetables. It prepares the environment to accept civilizing processes, to 2500 years BC. In the hunters stand-tipped projectiles triangular small and medium size.
Protoform
Transition from a sedentary one nomade, after the ancestors cede place to the implementation of initial agriculture .- In our region there are two major cultural groups. In the area of Rincon Atuel likely source of Peruvian and Chilean coast. In San Juan is represented with The Morrillos II.
seniority Atuel III level age is 1800 years BC. 4 millennia ago Atuel the banks were occupied by hunter-gatherer culture, with burial custom of burial in caves entire networks involved in cane and leather. Skillful basket makers without evidence of agriculture. In the Andean Center is for emerging farmers. One aspect of this culture was protecting her burial with a palisade of logs Chan, mesquite or creosote bush, plant fibers braided with unerring craftsmanship.
With the culture of Atuel II, represented in the Cave of Atuel arrives early agriculture: corn, squash, beans, quinoa. The seeds were kept in buckets of vegetable fiber or leather. A mummified bodies, their heads protected with coiled baskets. Basketry and Corderie ruprestre art and manual are very well represented with red, yellow, moss green and dark brown. Echelon forms are combined or acute angles and depth of leather. It develops between the (300 BC to (100 BC
Agroalfarero
Around the beginning of the Christian era new changes come under the influence of cultures agro potters or pottery. It continues to add plants growing vegetables, ceramics or pottery, spinning and weaving loom, some changes at social organization. Economic changes (agriculture - pottery) lead to sedentary or rooting for the groups to specific sites. We organize the local cultures in the agricultural stage potter (Agrelo and Viluco).
Our region is comprised within the sales Subarea Centro Oeste Argentino, in turn, in the southernmost portion of the southern Andean area, from Peru and Bolivia southward along the zone of influence and penetration Inca. Its origins are associated with high culture: Altiplanicas (Tiahuanaco), Peruvian (Inca) and some cultural traits of filiation amazonica (Guarani).
Early Period
Incipient agriculture pottery culture, between the beginning of the Christian era and 700. Culture is the Agrelo that lingers in the next period. The culture of Atuel II was the recipient of the potter.
Middle Period
Between 700 and 1000. The Tiahuanaco culture political and social organizations, culture and religion is irradiated on the cultures of south, northern Chile and northwest, to get something here possibly refined and modified in the brand Puna de Atacama in Chile, with the culture of Aguada to be felt in San Juan business and Mendoza in the traditions of Agrelo - Calingasta.
