edicine, law or others, however there are professionals who "love" being archaeologists and affirm that their work "is fascinating," according to what Diego Catriel León told Télam ( 50), doctorate in this discipline and researcher at Conicet, who reflected that archeology "allows him to think about myself."   Catriel, who is also vice director of the Institute of Studies for Social Development (Indes), which is an Executing Unit with dual dependence on Conicet and the National University of Santiago del Estero, has been working in this province for eleven years and carries out different research, but especially on the occupational history and social dynamics of indigenous societies.   "Archaeology allows me to think about myself," reflects Catriel, who also adds that "it is thinking about the other, from an object, and that allows us to think about ourselves, it is like thinking about a reality that is very different from ours."   "In some way you are doing an exercise in which you are thinking and that is what archeology is for me," he added.   Providing a more common concept, he said that "archaeology has to do with the study of indigenous populations of the past based on their materialities."   In this aspect of materialities, he gave as an example that "now we are thinking that there are other corporalities" since he said that in "Western rationality we have a body where people die and the body is no longer the person."   While he indicated that "for the indigenous populations, even from Santiago, the cult of ancestors was very important," then with that body "there is actually a transformation into other corporalities."   "So to think about that is also to reflect on oneself," he said.   When talking about how he decided to be an archaeologist, he commented that "the paths out there are strange in how they end up defining the profession that one likes, I love being an archaeologist and I would be one if I were not a researcher at Conicet or a university professor, who have also taught me allowed to develop this profession"   In the work of archaeologists, technology is also important in current times for research, since "it helps us say other things, when before it was thought that, for example, in the cave painting of Para Yacu it was an arrow, we were able to see that they were faces, that they had a triangular shape because of how their faces were