Ruins of Quilmes

The Ruins of Quilmes is an archaeological site in the Calchaquí Valleys, Tucumán Province, Argentina. The site was the largest pre-Columbian settlement in the country,^[1] occupying about 30 hectares.^[2] The area dates back to ca 850 AD and was inhabited by the Quilmes people;^[3] it is believed that about 5,000 people lived here during its heights.^[2]

Although discovered in 1888 by Samuel Alejandro Lafone Quevedo,^[4] the ruins were first studied in 1897 by the archaeologist Juan Bautista Ambrosetti.^[5]

Ruins of Quilmes

References

1. Elsinger, Rubén (10 March 2008). "Las ruinas de los Quilmes, tomadas en Tucumán por los indígenas de la región". Clarín (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 September 2011.
2. Reymúndez, Carolina (25 June 2006). "Lo que quedó de los antiguos quilmes". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 August 2011.
3. Link, Theodore; McCarthy, Rose (2004). Argentina: a primary source cultural guide. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8239-3997-8.
4. Sosa, Jorge (2007), "Ruinas" de Quilmes, historia de un desproposito (PDF) (in Spanish), p. 7, retrieved 31 August 2011^{[permanent dead link]}
5. Tamagnini, Marcela (2006). Problemáticas de la arqueología contemporánea, Volume 1 (in Spanish). Univ Nacional de Río Cuarto. p. 316. ISBN 978-950-665-404-7.

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