An archaeological culture of the western jungle piedmont (selvas occidentales) of Salta and Tucumán provinces in northwestern Argentina, identified by gray geometric-painted pottery, animal-shaped wind instruments, and circular stone-socketed dwellings; subsisted on maize cultivation and llama herding.
Long-lived formative-to-regional-developments tradition; its eventual transition into or displacement by later northwestern Argentine cultural developments is not clearly documented in available sources.
The standard reference synthesis; covers the Formative and Regional Developments cultures of northwest Argentina including La Candelaria.
A continental survey placing the Salta/Tucumán ceramic traditions in their wider Andean-fringe context.