In this article we highlight the relevance of a combination of a participatory mapping approach and unmanned aerial vehicle photogrammetry as complementary techniques for landscape archaeology studies. We exemplify this approach with the discovery and mapping of the Cerro Quemado site, located in the Yocavil valley in north‐western Argentina. The site presents a local Inka architecture pattern corresponding to an administrative centre type settlement of the southern provinces of the empire and is placed closely to one of the main routes of the Inka road that runs through the bottom of the valley. The implications of this finding are substantive in terms of a more complete understanding of the expansion of the Inkas in this region. The finding of Cerro Quemado has been possible thanks to the local spatial knowledge registered by the implementation of a participatory mapping approach with students and teachers of a local high school. Its expedited registration and the preliminary map of the structures presented here was facilitated by drone technology and spatial photogrammetry that helped to define in a cost efficient and quick way its architectural pattern.
El espacio arquitectónico se constituye como parte del paisaje cultural que participa de lleno en la construcción y reproducción de las prácticas domésticas y rituales y del imaginario colectivo de la comunidad que lo construye y lo habita. La localidad arqueológica de Andalhuala se presenta así como un área que nos permite abordar cómo fue la construcción y el uso del espacio en la vertiente oriental del valle de Santa María o Yocavil, cuyos patrones de asentamiento fueron anteriormente definidos a partir de lo conocido para el flanco occidental. Se discuten aquí las evidencias recuperadas a partir de tareas de prospección y relevamiento arquitectónico en la mencionada localidad. Los resultados obtenidos hasta ahora revelan un panorama complejo de ocupaciones desde los inicios del primer milenio D.C. hasta los finales de los tiempos tardíos, abarcando una franja espacial desde los terrenos bajos próximos a cuencas permanentes hasta los pisos inferiores de la Sierra del Aconquija.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.