THE AVELLANEDA VILLAGE AS AN ASSEMBLAGE

Abstract

This work develops an ontological approach to the emergence of a small border town of short duration in the context of the expansionist process faced by the argentine State in the end of the 19th century. It is proposed to study the Avellaneda Village, founded in the middle valley of the Río Negro in 1879 and abandoned in 1882, from the theory of assemblages, to explain the emergent character of its historical specificity and the complexity of the process that gathered in a space and very limited time, a complex tangle of highly heterogeneous people, ideas and things, all carried with intentionality and agency. Based on these ideas and the historicity of the town itself, a typological model is postulated to try to understand the materiality of the Pampa de los Molinos site and generate archaeological expectations that comprehensively and relationally integrate the different lines of evidence assembled there.

Keywords

• pueblo avellaneda
• assemblage
• historical archaeology
• borders
• dessert campaign