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Anthropology - Inti Huasi
INTI HUASI - SAN LUIS
The presence of MAN in the region of Cuyo dates from 8500 years back in time,
i.e. 6500 BC as per Radiocarbon registers made by Professor ALBERTO REX GONZALEZ
at the INTI HUASI caves, witnesses of tribal presence in the territory of
San Luis.
The driest and lightest place of the whole cave was a large arcade meant for
defense against summer sun and winter rains. It must have been the meeting
place for inhabitants of different epochs, baptized INTI HUASI, which means
HOUSE OF THE SUN in "quechua" language.
In addition to the discoveries made by Professor ALBERTO REX GONZALEZ when
researching this place, we can assert that the sensation of presence of those
men and women that lived at the cavern can still be felt. It is as if each
and every one had left their lives, presence and culture.
Men arrived there when extreme temperatures generated a process of desertification
and what we could call THE LAKES BASIN was considerably diminished. Apparently
those groups disappeared to reappear 300 years later (5900 BC) when the region
had acquired its present appearance. They devoted themselves to hunting and
harvesting of fruits such as carob tree.
As from that moment on, life in the territory of San Luis was transformed
and reduced to the margins of the SAN LUIS MOUNTAIN RANGE. The most favorable
places for summer hunting were the higher while harvesting was related to
the large river littorals and the lower parts, specially the CONLARA VALLEY.
When incoming groups from south Peru brought basic knowledge on agriculture
and stock breeding in 2000 BC, they could not make further temporary movements
due to weather changes, and started looking for intermediate zones for settlement.
Since 700 AD, village groups met in the small protected valleys that gave place
to farming activities in the lowest and most humid places. The walls of the funnel
made by the valleys were used for pasture. The high pampas and the uncultivated
lands kept on being used for hunting and harvesting different fruits. The mountain
ranges conditions could never have allowed another pattern than that of a dispersed
village. Today, many of these villages have become settlements of different levels
of importance that constitute the present Conlara Valley.
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