Arqueología de las Comunidades Aestatales: Teorías, metodologías y líneas de investigación en los Andes Centrales

As ACAIA Team (Archaeology of the communities stateless Iberian and Andean), our aim is to study stateless groups, that keep around margins of synchronics States or front expansion or emergency of a State. We work for a social archaeology, with a materialist, libertarian, feminist and critical theory, demanding a realistic knowledge and objective scientific methodologies. We
look for the reality of the women and men, his conditions of collective life, his economic, political and ideological practices, and if there were relations of domination and exploitation. From 2005 our research is about the communities of the Nasca Valley (South Coast of Peru), c. 1400 cal CE-400 cal CE, in situations previous and contemporaries to first regional states. Results of our excavations and investigations in El Trigal allow to sustain the hypothesis that in 2nd century
BCE was produced a transformation in mechanisms of reproduction of the social life. From state-less communities (as Cerro de El Trigal), organised through communitarian centrality politics, go to a state formation, with a dominant class that had domestic servitude in establishments as El Trigal III, while economic and politician control and ideological hegemony were centred in the big settlement of Cahuachi.