An early agropottery culture of the Chaco-Santiagueño plain, settled along the banks of the Dulce and Salado rivers in what is now Santiago del Estero province, Argentina. A hunter-gatherer society that adopted incipient floodplain agriculture, fishing, and algarrobo/chañar gathering, and introduced feline-cult iconography to the lowland region.
Declined by around 700 AD and was directly succeeded in the same river valleys by the Sunchituyoc culture, to which it passed on its ceramic and ideological traditions; late-period sites show contact with the Aguada culture of the adjoining highlands.
Continental survey placing the Formative cultures of the Argentine Chaco-Santiagueño plain in their wider South American context.
Reference volume with chapters on Northwest Argentine and Chaco archaeology covering the Formative-period plains cultures.