Aguas turbias, campos fértiles. La geografía sagrada del estado Inca en la región de Fiambalá, Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina

Abstract

In the social construction of landscapes, many different societies consider the recurrence of human body as a cosmological symbol, by which there is no rupture between a man's body and its environment. The interconnection of land, human body, and fluid flows has been a consistent reference since the times of the Incas until the present day in the Andes. Considering the different facts of this approach, this paper investigates the association between the Inca sites (Batungasta, Mishma-7 and Ranchillos-1) and the rivers in the region (Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina). Our hypothesis leads us to assume that the optical characteristics (the colour red) of the rivers served as a location factor in the construction of those state-owned sites.

Orgaz, M. A. y Ratto, N. R. (2016). Aguas turbias, campos fértiles. La geografía sagrada del estado Inca en la región de Fiambalá, Tinogasta, Catamarca, Argentina. En R. Sandrine y B. Sittler (Eds.), Water as a morphogen in Landscapes - L’eau comme morphogène dans les paysages, pp. 95- 104. Oxford: Archaeopress.