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Cuando los primeros colonos llegaron a los Estados Unidos de América y comenzaron a buscarse la vida en aquel entorno natural, tan duro y poco familiar para gentes procedentes de Europa, jamás habrían podido soñar que, algún día, esa tierra que pisaban se convertiría en uno de los países más poderosos del mundo.

Desde los griegos hasta nuestros días se fue desarrollando la idea de que, por una parte, el historiador es un espectador del pasado y, por otra, que la visión de mundos desaparecidos a través del estudio de las ruinas, los fragmentos de todo tipo y las lecturas de libros en desuso o documentos rescatados es la tarea que lo define. El historiador del siglo XXI, sin embargo, labora bajo la forma de la melancolía, preso de la sensación de pérdida del sentido y la percepción del futuro; la historia ya no es aquel gran discurso que vinculaba sociedad con estado e integraba el núcleo duro...

This work provides a critical, reflexive panorama of the way archaeological pottery studies in North-western Argentina were carried out throughout the discipline's history (from 16th century onwards). It evaluates their variation or lack of variation in the different sub-areas in the region (Puna, Valleys, Ravines and Western Forests) and analyzes the development of these studies against the theoretical-methodological changes in national archaeology (thus evaluating how and why these studies have changed). It presents the state-of-the-art view of pottery studies in North-western Argentina...

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