MOVING WITH THE LANDSCAPE, METHODOLOGICAL PROPOSAL FROM THE BALCOSNA VALLEY, CATAMARCA

In this paper we analyze and interpret archaeological landscapes in the mountainous Balcosna valley, through the relationship between transit and mobility for the inhabitants of the first millennium AD. Our purpose is to contribute to the study of social practices on human mobility, focusing on the relationship of the local landscape and extra local. We propose a survey methodology to walk the paths through the landscape that allows us to play their active role in the reproduction of social relations and meanings, and by means of a GIS to generate an interpretive model of reality. It presents and summarizes the data on the structure and objectification of space linked to a network of paths. These results are put in relation to the valley of Ambato, and from them we propose the existence of a network of diffusion and movement within the area.