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<font size="2" color="#990000" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Mountainous
region</b><br>
<b>T</b>he <b>oldest human traces found</b> in mountains of the <b>Argentine
territory</b> were discovered in <b>Ayamapitín</b>, <b>Córdoba</b>
and <b>Intihuasi</b>, <b>San Luis</b>, and were around <b>8,000 years old</b>.
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In the so called <b>"early"</b> period, the oldest culture is located in <b>Tafí</b>
(<b>Tucumán</b>), <b>2,500 years back</b> in the past and the only things
known about them are that they were made up by extended families and worked
<b>ceramics</b> and <b>stone</b>. <br>
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In the <b>"middle"</b> period, the most important manifestation of the existence
of a culture was found in <b>La Aguada</b>, a territory comprising the provinces
of <b>San Juan</b>, <b>La Rioja</b> and <b>Catamarca</b>, between the years
<b>650</b> and <b>800</b>. The settlers engaged in <b>corn growing</b>, <b>pottery</b>
and <b>bronze</b> works.
In the <b>"late"</b>
period, between the years <b>850</b> and <b>1480</b>, the <b>first demographic
concentrations</b> took place.
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<font color="#990000"><b>In the Patagonia</b><br>
In the <b>far south</b> and the <b>Fuegian channels</b> the first men are assumed
to have arrived <b>6,000 years ago</b>. They inhabited <b>circular, half-buried
dwelling</b> places and lived by <b>hunting</b> and <b>fishing</b>. They used
boats and spears for the hunting of sea mammals and they gathered shell-fish.
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