Modos de vida situados: el Formativo en Laguna Blanca

might we agree if there exist "essential notes" that define what thing is the "formative"? did it occupy only a time and/or a definite place? does the formative describe to an only way of life or perhaps an adaptative system? concept categorial or empirical reality? questions that only in an exceptional way were orientated to understand the implicit suppositions of the archaeological uses of the term, fact that has generated that we have moved ourselves in a variety of interpretations at the moment of relating the concepts and the casuistry. in this article we have thought about the applications and reformulations of this methodological resource, by means of a historical and "genealogical" analysis of the concept. from these reflections, we try to submit to discussion these conceptual elucidations on the experiences of the archaeological works realized in the territory of the reserve of biosphere de laguna blanca (dpto. belén. catamarca). at the end of this article, like epilogue we will test a placed alternative, in an attempt to format the formative