Some award them other names. The certain thing is that although, the proportions are much smaller to those of the rest of the world, their disposition and the hypotheses that arise of them, they link them and non desmerecen their importance and mystery.

 It doesn't fit doubt about the function and purpose quo they had the menhirs of Tafí of the Valley in the County of Tucumán, as astronomical indicators and objects rituales. 
They were also good as markers demarcatorios for agricultural tasks and races of the wild fauna: you call, gumps, etc.
To the margin of these conclusions, professionals' preliminary reports exist that point out them with walls lateral canteadas, with prismatic forms, being the more canteadas guided in the same address; Energy areas?
 

For some residents, the menhirs were the "nature of the Earth", with the connotations that this name implies in the old Castilian.
Of being this way the Pachamama or Mother serious Earth an entity that required the full establishment of the sun to fructify, with the rising rains of the summer, in the western mountainous area of Tucumán.
The topic gives for a lot but, and undoubtedly it corresponds to the cultural Anthropology, to investigate it.