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FORMATION AND TRANSFORMATION DYNAMICS OF A DESERT BURIAL FROM ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA, SOUTHERN ARGENTINEAN PUNA. An agropastoralist burial within Structure 1 of Punta de la Pena 9 site, Sector I, from Antofagasta de la Sierra, Southern Argentinean Puna is analyzed. The burial is studied from a dynamic point of view, one that enables the exploration of several natural and cultural processes -both deliberate and random- that shaped the context. A multidisciplinary approach is used, integrating several lines of evidence that include bioanthropological, archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological, ceramic, stratigraphic, lithic stone tool techno-typological, and mineral sample compositional analyses. As a result, thirteen dynamic formation and transformation processes that include removal, addition and extraction of human parts, ecofacts and artefacts, are identified.