Pit-house dwellers of the Córdoba sierras, bearded and llama-herding, who carved spiral petroglyphs and dug their sunken winter houses into the hillsides.
Broken up by encomienda and disease through the 1600s and largely absorbed into the Creole population by 1750; tens of thousands of Cordobese now self-identify as Comechingón descendants.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Comechingón — the shape you scrub through changes in 500 · 1650.
Describes the pit-house dwellers of the Córdoba sierras, their petroglyphs and llama herding before colonial absorption.
Background on the encomienda and disease that dissolved the Comechingón into the Creole population of Córdoba (broad context).