Francisco Gallardo
Biographic Data
| ID | 97545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Gallardo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Gallardo |
| SIGNATURE | GALLARDO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2871-7401 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Mineral beads of the formative period (3500 − 1000 BP) in the atacama desert
Millennial Pre-Columbian Pigment Mining in the Atacama Desert Coast (Northern Chile)
Animales e intercambio
Este trabajo se centra en los conjuntos arqueofaunísticos del sitio Aldea San Salvador, adscrito al Período Formativo Medio (ca 2300-2200 cal AP) y ubicado en la terraza sur del río San Salvador, un afluente del río Loa, a unos 1.300 msnm y a más de 100 km de la costa. La muestra de vertebrados se encuentra dominada por peces marinos (principalmente lenguado y jurel), en comparación a camélidos (fundamentalmente guanaco), roedores y aves. El conj…
On the pathways. Inter-nodal archaeology in the Atacama desert Pampa (c. 7000 BP-400 BP)
Piedras pintadas en la desembocadura del río Loa (desierto de Atacama, Chile)
El presente trabajo describe nuevas evidencias de pinturas rupestres costeras, registradas durante prospecciones realizadas en la desembocadura del río Loa (Región de Antofagasta, Chile). Se presenta la caracterización espacial de los sitios, los atributos de los soportes, paneles y pinturas. Se plantea que estas nuevas evidencias se posicionan como un antecedente más para discutir las particulares expresiones visuales de las poblaciones que habi…
The gig economy in Chile
While there is growing literature regarding the impact of the gig economy in countries of the Global North, the way it operates in Latin America and the Caribbean remains underexplored. This article describes platform work in Chile, especially in the context of COVID-19, which has highlighted the essential role of geographically tethered digital platforms in facilitating essential goods and services in times of social distancing and quarantine. W…
Yendegaia Rockshelter, the First Rock Art Site on Tierra del Fuego Island and Social Interaction in Southern Patagonia (South America)
Through our research at Bahía Yendegaia on the Beagle Channel in southernmost Patagonia-the ancestral territory of the Yagán people-we discovered the first rock art site on Tierra del Fuego Island. The geometric visual images found at Yendegaia Rockshelter present motifs and compositions analogous to those recorded at other sites on the southern archipelago associated with the marine hunter-gatherer tradition. They also show graphic similarities …
Interacción humano-camélido en la Puna de Atacama (área surandina)
En este trabajo presentamos un análisis zooarqueológico de las relaciones humano-camélido durante el Holoceno en la Puna de Atacama (norte de Chile y Noroeste argentino) a través del estudio de composiciones rupestres interpretadas como escenas de caza durante el lapso entre 9700 y 2500 aP. Estas representaciones aluden a interacciones sociales y a un imaginario visual que vincula humanos y camélidos en un mismo acontecimiento. Planteamos que el …
Arqueología social y ontología crítica
Los seres humanos se definen por vivir en sociedad. Una afirmación que ha favorecido la imaginación sociológica, pero que excluye el mundo material en que esta se lleva a cabo. Ignorar las dimensiones relacionales con las cosas y la naturaleza es una limitación para esa arqueología que trata con experiencia humana y cultura material en cualquier época y lugar. Marx y Engels advirtieron tempranamente, en la necesidad de una crítica ideológica, de …
Ontología y Arqueología. Presentación Epistémica
Silvopastoralism and the shaping of forest patches in the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (ca. 3000–1500 years BP)
During the Formative period by the Late-Holocene (ca. 3000–1500 BP), semi-sedentary and sedentary human occupations had emerged in the oases, salares, and riverine systems in the central depression (2400–1000 masl) of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (19–25°S). This hyperarid core was marginally occupied during the post-Pleistocene and middle Holocene droughts. Settlement on these lower belts was accompanied by a rise in humidity, the introduct…
Caza de grandes presas marinas en la costa de Antofagasta y los canales de Tierra del Fuego
Los cetáceos se cuentan entre los mamíferos de mayor tamaño en los océanos y han sido de gran importancia para la vida social de diferentes culturas desde épocas muy antiguas. Entre los pueblos que habitaban las costas de América, su consumo favoreció la especialización económica, ceremonias y festines al servicio de la integración social. La caza de ballenas tenía implicaciones económicas y simbólicas claves en la reproducción comunal, sin embar…
Reciprocal exchange, value, and forms of transaction
Exotic goods belong to a class of valuable materials that have played an important role in ritual activities, political ceremonies, and economic agreements in different human contexts, both past and present. However, we have made little progress in understanding exchanges as relationships between donors and receivers, as forms of reciprocal interaction that forged a network of links between individuals and groups of different cultural traditions.…
Desert travels in the Atacama
Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, but also of material goods, imaginaries, experiences, flows of information, and knowledge. In this article, we examine different forms of movement in the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (c. 2500-1500 cal BP), such as pedestrian travels, llama caravans, and navigation on sea lion-skin vessels along the Pacific, incorporating various material …
Niemeyer, Hans
The interior frontier
An isotopic study of dietary diversity in formative period Ancachi/Quillagua, Atacama Desert, northern Chile
OBJECTIVES: To characterize the paleodiet of individuals from Formative Period (1500 B.C.-A.D. 400) Atacama Desert sites of Ancachi and Quillagua as a means of understanding the dietary and cultural impacts of regional systems of exchange. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-one bone samples recovered from the cemetery of Ancachi (02QU175) and in/around the nearby town of Quillagua were the subject of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone…
The ways of fish beyond the sea
Along the Atacama Desert coast, fish has always been a staple food and by the Formative period (500 cal B.C.-700 cal A.D.) it had become a product in high demand by the inhabitants of the inland valleys, oases and ravines of the desert. In this paper we explore the technologies used in coastal fishing activities, the diverse species caught, and fish processing and preserving techniques. We further examine the circulation routes of the product thr…
El oasis de Quillagua
Este artículo trata, a modo de ensayo, sobre la naturaleza fronteriza del oasis de Quillagua a orillas del río Loa, desierto de Atacama. Se discuten los datos etnohistóricos tardíos y arqueológicos de una época posterior al 900 d.C. Es bien conocido que este oasis era un lugar de complementariedad ecológica e interacción entre grupos picas-tarapacás y atacamas, asunto que los registros arqueológicos remontan hacia el Período Intermedio Tardío. En…
El Condor mine
Estilos de arte rupestre e interacción social en el desierto de Atacama (Norte de Chile)
El presente ensayo relaciona los estilos de arte rupestre de la región atacameña con las formas de interacción social a lo largo del tiempo, desde el periodo Arcaico Tardío al Colonial (ca. 3000 a.C.-1800 d.C.). A partir de la información arqueológica disponible y de un largo programa de estudios, se propone que los estilos rupestres no sólo expresaron identidades locales vinculadas a las relaciones interculturales, sino también permitieron funda…
Un enclave arcaico tardío en la aguada costera de Gualaguala (desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile)
Chungara Revista de Antropologa Chilena Presentamos el reporte inicial de recientes excavaciones de un asentamiento con arquitectura lapidaria cercano a la ciudad de Mejillones en el litoral del desierto de Atacama, datado hacia los 5000 cal. AP. Discutimos a travs de su evidencia material la estrategia de importacin hacia el campamento de una produccin extendida geogrficamente en distintos ambientes del litoral y el desierto, lo que junto a un t…
Efectos Colaterales De La Transición Al Formativo
Chungara, Revista de Antropologa Chilena En la Regin de Antofagasta, el perodo Formativo se define por importantes transformaciones socio-econmicas relacionadas al abandono paulatino del modo de vida cazador recolector. Sin embargo, para los habitantes de su costa rida, la caza y recoleccin marina siguieron siendo primordiales. A pesar de ello, experimentan significativos cambios culturales, como la incorporacin de una tecnologa de cocina fornea.…
Fuegian Firestone Quarry
International audience
Consumption Consumes
Exchange goods contribute to social complexity and identity construction, but our knowledge of past practices associated with the circulation and consumption of such goods is limited. We explore the polished black ceramics of the San Pedro de Atacama oasis in northern Chile, which were widely traded during the first seven centuries A.D. In particular, we consider the relationships established between the agricultural and pastoral communities of t…
Mobility and Exchange among Marine Hunter-Gatherer and Agropastoralist Communities in the Formative Period Atacama Desert
Northern Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet; however, a variety of complex risk-mitigation strategies facilitated long-term human occupation of the region. Using a burgeoning corpus of human, floral, and faunal
Wild or Domesticated? Camelids in Early Formative Rock Art of the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)
The absence of suitable methodologies to distinguish between wild and domesticated camelids in rock art has limited the interpretation of visual preferences of Andean prehispanic cultures. Although rock art's contextual information may provide some indications that help to differentiate between wild and domesticated animals, uncertainty prevails because the relation to camelid forms is indirect. Zoological and zooarchaeological knowledge of South…
Eating Fish in the Driest Desert in the World
The San Salvador River in northern Chile is a tributary of the Loa, the only river that traverses the Atacama Desert from the mountains to the Pacific. Recent investigations along the San Salvador River revealed the presence of a Formative period village site and associated cemetery approximately 110 km inland from the Pacific Ocean. Bioarchaeological and biogeochemical analyses conducted on human skeletal remains recovered from the San Salvador …
Flujos De Información Visual, Interacción Social Y Pinturas Rupestres en El Desierto De Atacama (Norte De Chile)
El presente artculo explora la interaccin social en la regin atacamea a partir del estudio de sus pinturas rupestres. Mediante el estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo de las distribuciones pictricas, tanto por las estructuras compositivas como por los conos claves que aparecen simultneamente en dos o ms localidades rupestres, se determinan flujos diferenciales de informacin visual. Esta circulacin
Prehistoric and historic networks on the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile)
Comparing the records of fishing communities made in the sixteenth to twentieth centuries to the archaeological evidence of the sixth millennium BP, the authors propose a sophisticated prehistoric network for the coastal people of northern Chile. Residential seashore settlements link both along the coast to temporary production sites for fish, and inland to oasis-based providers of products from the uplands and salt flats. Sharing values and kins…
Sobre La Composición Y La Disposición en El Arte Rupestre De Chile
Units of designs or motifs have dominated the studies of rock art, leaving aside those arrangements that are organized into larger units.In this article, offers some operational definitions and suggested that the study of these configurations allow the opening of a new field of archaeological interpretation.For this purpose here are considered rock art of Chilean territory, a starting point for a discussion that will surely exceed those limits
Social interaction and rock art styles in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile)
In this ground-breaking study the author looks at three consecutive styles of rock art, placing them in the social context in which they were produced. Although necessarily succinct, the argument shows that as hierarchy increased and functioned over longer distances, rock art could perform as the organ of pastoralist authority, or the badge of marginalised hunters or, most often, as the imagery of consensus masking social inequality
Consumption Consumes
Exchange goods contribute to social complexity and identity construction, but our knowledge of past practices associated with the circulation and consumption of such goods is limited. We explore the polished black ceramics of the San Pedro de Atacama oasis in northern Chile, which were widely traded during the first seven centuries A.D. In particular, we consider the relationships established between the agricultural and pastoral communities of t…
Emblems, Leadership, Social Interaction and Early Social Complexity
Social complexity is synonymous with inequality, a political form whose origin is associated with a reduction in residential mobility, the intensification of production, craft specialization, long-distance exchange, public architecture, the proliferation of prestige goods and ceremonial feasts. Archaeological evidence of these processes, however, is insufficient without the identification of practices related to prehistoric leadership. In the ear…
Sobre el Comercio y Mercado Tradicional entre los Lupaca del Siglo XVI
Comercio y mercado en el mundo andino han sido un tema de debate, pero utilizando el mismo enfoque sustantivo de la antropologa econmica que favoreci el anlisis de la organizacin econmica inca, desarrollamos un examen de la informacin clave respecto de estas transacciones en la nacin Lupaca del siglo XVI. Comercio y mercado (Alatha, Ccatu y Haurucu) tenan su propia forma cultural en este mundo aymara. El anlisis econmico y la informacin etnohistr…
The ways of fish beyond the sea
Along the Atacama Desert coast, fish has always been a staple food and by the Formative period (500 cal B.C.-700 cal A.D.) it had become a product in high demand by the inhabitants of the inland valleys, oases and ravines of the desert. In this paper we explore the technologies used in coastal fishing activities, the diverse species caught, and fish processing and preserving techniques. We further examine the circulation routes of the product thr…
El Condor mine
Riders on the storm
Rider and mount iconography is common in the rock art of northern Chile but it is little investigated and poorly understood. This paper takes a new approach which focuses on the meaning and context of these equestrian images. It surveys the contexts in which equestrian imagery, particularly that associated with Apostle Santiago, is used and the meanings it invokes in colonial period illustrations and contemporary indigenous Andean cultures. These…
The gig economy in Chile
While there is growing literature regarding the impact of the gig economy in countries of the Global North, the way it operates in Latin America and the Caribbean remains underexplored. This article describes platform work in Chile, especially in the context of COVID-19, which has highlighted the essential role of geographically tethered digital platforms in facilitating essential goods and services in times of social distancing and quarantine. W…
Yendegaia Rockshelter, the First Rock Art Site on Tierra del Fuego Island and Social Interaction in Southern Patagonia (South America)
Through our research at Bahía Yendegaia on the Beagle Channel in southernmost Patagonia-the ancestral territory of the Yagán people-we discovered the first rock art site on Tierra del Fuego Island. The geometric visual images found at Yendegaia Rockshelter present motifs and compositions analogous to those recorded at other sites on the southern archipelago associated with the marine hunter-gatherer tradition. They also show graphic similarities …
Reciprocal exchange, value, and forms of transaction
Exotic goods belong to a class of valuable materials that have played an important role in ritual activities, political ceremonies, and economic agreements in different human contexts, both past and present. However, we have made little progress in understanding exchanges as relationships between donors and receivers, as forms of reciprocal interaction that forged a network of links between individuals and groups of different cultural traditions.…
Efectos Colaterales De La Transición Al Formativo
Chungara, Revista de Antropologa Chilena En la Regin de Antofagasta, el perodo Formativo se define por importantes transformaciones socio-econmicas relacionadas al abandono paulatino del modo de vida cazador recolector. Sin embargo, para los habitantes de su costa rida, la caza y recoleccin marina siguieron siendo primordiales. A pesar de ello, experimentan significativos cambios culturales, como la incorporacin de una tecnologa de cocina fornea.…
Modeling Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices (BWP) on the Coast of Northern Chile's Atacama Desert During the Formative Period
Stable isotope analysis of bone collagen is frequently employed as a means of studying the breastfeeding and weaning practices (BWP) of archaeological populations. Such studies are strengthened greatly through the application of statistical models that permit precise and model-bound estimates of weaning age, duration, trophic enrichment, and the isotopic characterization of supplementary foods. Here we present the result of a stable isotope (δ15N…
Mineral beads of the formative period (3500 − 1000 BP) in the atacama desert
Cocinando Relaciones Interculturales
Cocinando relaciones interculturales: residuos adheridos en
Interacción humano-camélido en la Puna de Atacama (área surandina)
En este trabajo presentamos un análisis zooarqueológico de las relaciones humano-camélido durante el Holoceno en la Puna de Atacama (norte de Chile y Noroeste argentino) a través del estudio de composiciones rupestres interpretadas como escenas de caza durante el lapso entre 9700 y 2500 aP. Estas representaciones aluden a interacciones sociales y a un imaginario visual que vincula humanos y camélidos en un mismo acontecimiento. Planteamos que el …
Desert travels in the Atacama
Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, but also of material goods, imaginaries, experiences, flows of information, and knowledge. In this article, we examine different forms of movement in the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (c. 2500-1500 cal BP), such as pedestrian travels, llama caravans, and navigation on sea lion-skin vessels along the Pacific, incorporating various material …
An isotopic study of dietary diversity in formative period Ancachi/Quillagua, Atacama Desert, northern Chile
OBJECTIVES: To characterize the paleodiet of individuals from Formative Period (1500 B.C.-A.D. 400) Atacama Desert sites of Ancachi and Quillagua as a means of understanding the dietary and cultural impacts of regional systems of exchange. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-one bone samples recovered from the cemetery of Ancachi (02QU175) and in/around the nearby town of Quillagua were the subject of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bone…
El oasis de Quillagua
Este artículo trata, a modo de ensayo, sobre la naturaleza fronteriza del oasis de Quillagua a orillas del río Loa, desierto de Atacama. Se discuten los datos etnohistóricos tardíos y arqueológicos de una época posterior al 900 d.C. Es bien conocido que este oasis era un lugar de complementariedad ecológica e interacción entre grupos picas-tarapacás y atacamas, asunto que los registros arqueológicos remontan hacia el Período Intermedio Tardío. En…
Fuegian Firestone Quarry
International audience
Riders on the storm
Rider and mount iconography is common in the rock art of northern Chile but it is little investigated and poorly understood. This paper takes a new approach which focuses on the meaning and context of these equestrian images. It surveys the contexts in which equestrian imagery, particularly that associated with Apostle Santiago, is used and the meanings it invokes in colonial period illustrations and contemporary indigenous Andean cultures. These…
Wild or Domesticated? Camelids in Early Formative Rock Art of the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)
The absence of suitable methodologies to distinguish between wild and domesticated camelids in rock art has limited the interpretation of visual preferences of Andean prehispanic cultures. Although rock art's contextual information may provide some indications that help to differentiate between wild and domesticated animals, uncertainty prevails because the relation to camelid forms is indirect. Zoological and zooarchaeological knowledge of South…
"A la sombra del sol" y la penumbra de los tiempos de la historia
"El film A la sombra del sol , de Silvio Caiozzi y PabloPerelman, fue estrenado en 1974 y trata de un hecho desangre en apariencia ocurrido a finales de los cuarenta enla localidad de Caspana. Entre los efectos de realidad máspoderosos del film, se cuenta con la participación de la poblaciónlocal como intérpretes. Un recurso propio del cineneorrealista italiano, en asociación a una imagen de carácterinequívocamente documental, permitió a los real…
Elementos Para Una Antropología Del Cine
El cine ficcin es uno de los medios de comunicacin visual de mayor influencia en la circulacin de valores y creencias en el mundo contemporneo. Se trata de una prctica cultural de extremo control, planificacin y manipulacin audiovisual que ha permanecido en los mrgenes de la preocupacin antropolgica. Sin embargo, nuevos intereses relativos a la comprensin de los modos de ver nos han permitido indagar con cierta profundidad en el funcionamiento de…
Sobre La Composición Y La Disposición en El Arte Rupestre De Chile
Units of designs or motifs have dominated the studies of rock art, leaving aside those arrangements that are organized into larger units.In this article, offers some operational definitions and suggested that the study of these configurations allow the opening of a new field of archaeological interpretation.For this purpose here are considered rock art of Chilean territory, a starting point for a discussion that will surely exceed those limits
Social interaction and rock art styles in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile)
In this ground-breaking study the author looks at three consecutive styles of rock art, placing them in the social context in which they were produced. Although necessarily succinct, the argument shows that as hierarchy increased and functioned over longer distances, rock art could perform as the organ of pastoralist authority, or the badge of marginalised hunters or, most often, as the imagery of consensus masking social inequality
El Poder de los Gentiles Arte Rupestre en el Río Salado (Desierto de Atacama)
GallardoLa precordillera del desierto de Atacama, en especial aquella abrupta franja por la que escurren las aguas que alimentan al río Loa, el único que en esta región alcanza el mar, presenta un paisaje que impresiona por su aridez.Mirado desde el aire, parece un manto rocoso y áspero surcado por profundas quebradas que
Prehistoric and historic networks on the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile)
Comparing the records of fishing communities made in the sixteenth to twentieth centuries to the archaeological evidence of the sixth millennium BP, the authors propose a sophisticated prehistoric network for the coastal people of northern Chile. Residential seashore settlements link both along the coast to temporary production sites for fish, and inland to oasis-based providers of products from the uplands and salt flats. Sharing values and kins…
Eating Fish in the Driest Desert in the World
The San Salvador River in northern Chile is a tributary of the Loa, the only river that traverses the Atacama Desert from the mountains to the Pacific. Recent investigations along the San Salvador River revealed the presence of a Formative period village site and associated cemetery approximately 110 km inland from the Pacific Ocean. Bioarchaeological and biogeochemical analyses conducted on human skeletal remains recovered from the San Salvador …
Flujos De Información Visual, Interacción Social Y Pinturas Rupestres en El Desierto De Atacama (Norte De Chile)
El presente artculo explora la interaccin social en la regin atacamea a partir del estudio de sus pinturas rupestres. Mediante el estudio cuantitativo y cualitativo de las distribuciones pictricas, tanto por las estructuras compositivas como por los conos claves que aparecen simultneamente en dos o ms localidades rupestres, se determinan flujos diferenciales de informacin visual. Esta circulacin
Las Pinturas Costeras De Chomache Y Su Contexto Económico-Social (Región De Tarapacá, Norte De Chile)
En este artículo presentamos evidencia arqueológica y etnohistórica que aporta datos sobre las íntimas relaciones establecidas entre poblaciones pescadoras y agroganaderas de la Región de Tarapacá durante el Período Intermedio Tardío (1000-1400 DC). Estas relaciones prehispánicas sirvieron de base para la organización de los sistemas colonial y republicano. La iconografía de las pinturas rupestres del sitio costero Chomache 58 y su correspondenci…
Sobre el Comercio y Mercado Tradicional entre los Lupaca del Siglo XVI
Comercio y mercado en el mundo andino han sido un tema de debate, pero utilizando el mismo enfoque sustantivo de la antropologa econmica que favoreci el anlisis de la organizacin econmica inca, desarrollamos un examen de la informacin clave respecto de estas transacciones en la nacin Lupaca del siglo XVI. Comercio y mercado (Alatha, Ccatu y Haurucu) tenan su propia forma cultural en este mundo aymara. El anlisis econmico y la informacin etnohistr…
Iconos Claves Del Formativo en Tarapacá (Chile)
Este artculo presenta una nueva mirada al emblemtico sitio de Tamentica (quebrada de Guatacondo, norte de Chile). Se describen y sistematizan tres motivos rupestres que, por su redundancia y variabilidad, consideramos iconos claves del perodo Formativo tarapaqueo, a saber: el Ser Antropomorfo con Tocado Dentado, el Ave con Alas Extendidas y la Balsa de Cuero de Lobo Tripulada
Emblems, Leadership, Social Interaction and Early Social Complexity
Social complexity is synonymous with inequality, a political form whose origin is associated with a reduction in residential mobility, the intensification of production, craft specialization, long-distance exchange, public architecture, the proliferation of prestige goods and ceremonial feasts. Archaeological evidence of these processes, however, is insufficient without the identification of practices related to prehistoric leadership. In the ear…
The Domestic Camelids (Cetartiodactyla)
The Middle Formative Cemetery of Topater 1 (ca. 500bc-100ad), located in the oasis of Calama, Northern Chile, presents an unusually diverse array and quantity of funerary offerings, distributed among the graves of more than 200 individuals. Among the offerings are the remains of several mummified camelids and camelid skeletal elements, primarily distal extremities and artefacts made from the bones of these animals. Taking only the first skeletoni…
Elementos Arqueosemióticos Y Pinturas Rupestres en El Desierto De Atacama (Norte De Chile)
El fracaso de los enfoques semiolgicos aplicados al arte rupestre tiene su origen en el intento de atribuirle un carcter fonmico, es decir, la reduccin de la expresin visual a su contenido o expresin verbal. En tanto que la mayora de los casos rupestres el significado es inaccesible, es claro que el punto de partida debe necesariamente descansar en el significante. En el presente artculo exploramos en una nueva va de anlisis, que apela a un lengu…
Explorando La Diversidad Dietética en La Prehistoria Del Desierto De Atacama
A lo largo de su prehistoria, el norte rido de Chile fue ocupado por una gran diversidad de culturas dispersas por todos los pisos ecolgicos de la regin. Sin embargo, desde el Arcaico Tardo se encuentran evidencias de intercambio de recursos y elementos culturales entre estas zonas, prctica que se intensific durante los Periodos Medio e Intermedio Tardo. En este trabajo se evalu la composicin de la dieta de las poblaciones locales, por medio del …
Mobility and Exchange among Marine Hunter-Gatherer and Agropastoralist Communities in the Formative Period Atacama Desert
Northern Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet; however, a variety of complex risk-mitigation strategies facilitated long-term human occupation of the region. Using a burgeoning corpus of human, floral, and faunal
Modeling Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices (BWP) on the Coast of Northern Chile's Atacama Desert During the Formative Period
Stable isotope analysis of bone collagen is frequently employed as a means of studying the breastfeeding and weaning practices (BWP) of archaeological populations. Such studies are strengthened greatly through the application of statistical models that permit precise and model-bound estimates of weaning age, duration, trophic enrichment, and the isotopic characterization of supplementary foods. Here we present the result of a stable isotope (δ15N…
Consumption Consumes
Exchange goods contribute to social complexity and identity construction, but our knowledge of past practices associated with the circulation and consumption of such goods is limited. We explore the polished black ceramics of the San Pedro de Atacama oasis in northern Chile, which were widely traded during the first seven centuries A.D. In particular, we consider the relationships established between the agricultural and pastoral communities of t…
Cocinando Relaciones Interculturales
Cocinando relaciones interculturales: residuos adheridos en
Chug-Chug en El Contexto De La Movilidad Internodal Prehispánica en El Desierto De Atacama, Chile
El sector de Chug Chug destaca arqueológicamente por ser un espacio de gran relevancia para el estudio de la movilidad internodal en el desierto de Atacama. Lo que conocemos como Ruta de Chug-Chug correspondió a una de las principales vías interregionales que conectaba el norte del desierto de Atacama con el sur de los Andes occidentales, siendo uno de los corredores longitudinales más usados para activar las conexiones entre las sociedades tarap…
Estilos de arte rupestre e interacción social en el desierto de Atacama (Norte de Chile)
El presente ensayo relaciona los estilos de arte rupestre de la región atacameña con las formas de interacción social a lo largo del tiempo, desde el periodo Arcaico Tardío al Colonial (ca. 3000 a.C.-1800 d.C.). A partir de la información arqueológica disponible y de un largo programa de estudios, se propone que los estilos rupestres no sólo expresaron identidades locales vinculadas a las relaciones interculturales, sino también permitieron funda…
Un enclave arcaico tardío en la aguada costera de Gualaguala (desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile)
Chungara Revista de Antropologa Chilena Presentamos el reporte inicial de recientes excavaciones de un asentamiento con arquitectura lapidaria cercano a la ciudad de Mejillones en el litoral del desierto de Atacama, datado hacia los 5000 cal. AP. Discutimos a travs de su evidencia material la estrategia de importacin hacia el campamento de una produccin extendida geogrficamente en distintos ambientes del litoral y el desierto, lo que junto a un t…
Efectos Colaterales De La Transición Al Formativo
Chungara, Revista de Antropologa Chilena En la Regin de Antofagasta, el perodo Formativo se define por importantes transformaciones socio-econmicas relacionadas al abandono paulatino del modo de vida cazador recolector. Sin embargo, para los habitantes de su costa rida, la caza y recoleccin marina siguieron siendo primordiales. A pesar de ello, experimentan significativos cambios culturales, como la incorporacin de una tecnologa de cocina fornea.…
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