EL PERíODO FORMATIVO EN LOS VALLES DEL NORTE DE CHILE Y SUR DE PERú: NUEVAS EVIDENCIAS Y COMENTARIOS

thirteen years after our article formativo en el norte grande de chile (mu？oz 1989), here we reanalyse the period, taking into consideration new evidence obtained in the far south of peru and far north of chile particularty during the last ten years. this information permits us to establish new hypotheses regarding reconstruction of society and culture during the formative period, highlighting the importance of the local population, knowledge of the landscape, complexity of the process of sedentism in the local population and contacts with populations of other valleys and other regions of the pacific watershed of the andes