incipient farmers = farmers incipientesLos members of the Ansilta culture inhabited, from 2,000 B.c., in the mountain range of the same name, in the current Calingasta Department. But his power base was the meat obtained hunting guanacos, as well as the fruits and roots which they collected, they were the first to develop a primitive form of agriculture. They cultivated Quinoa, with whose seeds it is possible to make an edible flour. They also planted squash, corn, beans and squash. The grazing of the flames - wearing as a means of transportation - was the beginning of farming.The members of the culture of Ansilta built semi-underground houses with roofs of leaves, branches and mud. Also lived in caves, whose walls decorated with abstract dibujospastor. They built tools of stone, bone, and wood. They developed pottery, pottery, basketry and tissues, as well as the manufacturing of instruments such as the peak and hoe. The vestiges of this group come up to 500 A.d., and believed that its members are merged with subsequent cultures.