Early agropastoral archaeological culture of the Argentine Northwest (Catamarca), llama-herding people known for polychrome ceramics, elaborate carved-stone funerary masks, and among the earliest copper/gold metalworking in the southern Andes; long-distance contacts reached as far as the Titicaca basin.
Its 'core' phase (c. 400 BC–100 AD) gave way to the related Alamito phase and, later, the broader Aguada culture in the same region.
Regional survey covering the formative cultures of the Argentine Northwest, including Condorhuasi.