ABSTRACT The archaeological record of funerary practices of the southern Calchaquí valleys, Northwest Argentina, offers fruitful ground to explore past significances embedded in the material forms of burial traditions. The recurrence of cemeteries and tombs located in sandy soils forwards plausible interpretations with regards to the notion of ‘death’ and the metaphors of ‘heat’ and ‘dryness’, a conceptual link that has been highlighted by ethnohistorical and ethnographic records of the Andes. Such accounts are used here with the purpose of generating interpretative hypotheses. This article argues that the sensorial qualities of particular landscapes and materials were one of the resources used to define the space of the dead during the Formative Period (ca. 1500 BC–1000 AD) in the southern Calchaquí valleys.

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关于炎热和干燥：南部卡尔查基山谷早期农业社会的景观、死亡和物质性（阿根廷西北部，公元一千年）

摘要 阿根廷西北部 Calchaquí 山谷南部丧葬习俗的考古记录为探索埋葬传统物质形式的过去意义提供了富有成效的基础。位于沙质土壤中的墓地和坟墓的重现为“死亡”的概念以及“热”和“干”的隐喻提供了合理的解释，安第斯山脉的民族历史和民族志记录强调了这一概念联系。此处使用此类帐户的目的是生成解释性假设。本文认为，特定景观和材料的感官品质是用于定义南部 Calchaquí 山谷形成时期（约公元前 1500 年至公元 1000 年）死者空间的资源之一。