Patricio López-Mendoza

Dados Biográficos

ID236898
NOMEPatricio López-Mendoza
PRENOMESPatricio
SOBRENOMELópez-Mendoza
ASSINATURALÓPEZ-MENDOZA P
AFILIAÇÕESUniversidad Católica del Norte
ORCID0000-0003-3431-7260
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS42
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES66
TOTAL COMO AUTOR42
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2007
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Early human occupation in north-central Chile

    Open AccessA Troncoso, Antonia Escudero et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2026

    Understanding early human occupation in the Americas requires the integration of multiple analytical scales and regional approaches to capture both broad and localized patterns. North-Central Chile is a key area for examining this process, as it is characterized by a Mediterranean environment in which desert and puna ecosystems are absent, in contrast to the northern Andes. Despite its significance, evidence for human occupation between 12,000–90…

  • Seabird hunting during the Middle and Late Holocene of the arheic coast of Tarapacá, Chile (20°S)

    Open AccessPatricio López Mendoza, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026

  • Years of sustainable marine resource exploitation (and beyond) at Punta Teatinos, Chilean semi-arid north (30° Lat. S)

    Daniel Hernández Castillo, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Island and Coastal…2026

    Sustainability is presented as a relevant form of resource management that can be approached by archaeology. Using the framework of socio-ecological systems (SES), seven indicators are proposed to infer multispecies sustainable coastal SES from the zooarchaeological record. This is tested by presenting the results of chronological and faunal analyses from Punta Teatinos, a shell midden in coastal north-central Chile. Three different modes of faun…

  • Geological Approach to Lithic Landscape During the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Southern Puna of the Atacama Desert (25°–27° S, 3200–5000 m a.s.l.)

    Open AccessAngélica Soto Riveros, Valentina Flores et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2026

    The petrographic study of raw materials is essential to understanding their provenance, availability, and role in human mobility. Linking the lithic landscape to its geological context reveals technological patterns. In the Atacama highlands (25°–27° S), part of the southern Andean Puna, lithic resources are abundant due to formations such as the Cordillera de Domeyko and the Andes. This study shows that tools from Late Pleistocene and Early Holo…

  • Comensalismo político en Chile central

    A Troncoso, Daniel Pavlovic et al.ARTICLEÑawpa Pacha2025Referências: 21

  • Diversity of birds and mammals uses on the Atacama desert coast, northern Chile (20°S)

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, X Power et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Referências: 6

  • Terminal Pleistocene-Early Holocene human occupation in north-central Chile

    Open AccessA Troncoso, Daniel Pascual et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025Citada por: 2Referências: 32

    While a clear human presence may be recognised in the Andes by 12 000-11 000 cal BP, most archaeological research has focused on occupation of the Andean highlands. To understand the initial occupation of inland areas of South America, the authors consider regional connections and spatial exploitation strategies of hunter-gatherers highlighted in a recent survey of Andean sites. Focusing on north-central Chile, artefacts and radiocarbon dates fro…

  • Human dynamics in the Southern Puna of Chile (25°-27°s) during the Late Holocene

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, R Loyola et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Environmental…2024

    We discuss the process of human re-occupation of the Southern Puna (25°-27°S) during the Late Holocene through a variety of lines of evidence, such as ceramics, faunal bones, lithic technology, sources of raw materials like obsidian, and rock art, and their integration with spatial analyses using least-cost paths. Our results indicate a process in which niches were formed in the puna, focused on a variety of activities such as vicuña hunting; exp…

  • Social interaction between the coast and the highlands of Chile's arid north (20°S) during the mid‐Holocene

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, Lucio González Venanzi et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Referências: 4

    This article discusses the archaeological implications of the discovery of the highland species Hippocamelus antisensis (Cervidae) and Vicugna vicugna (Camelidae) in two coastal contexts in the Atacama Desert (20°S, Chile). H. antisensis is currently distributed throughout the Peruvian Andes, northern Chile, western Bolivia and northwestern Argentina, between 1800 and 5500 m above sea level. V. vicugna is distributed throughout northern Peru and …

  • Technological and Protein Residue Analysis on Ancient Stemmed Projectile Points of the Southern Andes Highlands

    R Loyola, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLELithic Technology2024Citada por: 1Referências: 42

    We present the results of technological and protein residue analyses of the lithic assemblages recovered at the Pedernales-38 site (26.5°S; 69°W), located in the highlands of the southern Andes (3380 masl). Based on a reconstruction of the operational chains and the differential representation of their phases, we suggest that the final production, use, maintenance, and discard of large stemmed projectile points occurred at the site. Of the assemb…

  • Pedernales-5

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, R Loyola et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2024Referências: 8

    We present the results of an interdisciplinary study conducted at the Pedernales-5 site, situated in the Salar de Pedernales basin (26°S; 3356 masl), dated from 10,510−10,749 to 11,201−11,612 cal. BP. Unlike other Late Pleistocene and Holocene sites in the Andean Puna, where vicuñas ( Vicugna vicugna) were the primary prey, at Pedernales-5, the zooarcheological assemblage consists almost exclusively of flamingo (Phoenicopteridae) and bird remains…

  • Cazadores-recolectores-pescadores del Holoceno medio-tardío en el norte semiárido de Chile

    Open AccessA Troncoso, Daniel Pascual et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity2024Citada por: 2Referências: 43

    La costa del Pacífico de los Andes meridionales tiene una larga historia ocupacional que muestra una diversificación regional hacia el Holoceno medio y tardío. La costa del centro norte de Chile tuvo una importante ocupación cazadora-recolectora entre 6000 y 2000 cal aP, que difiere de las observadas en áreas vecinas por sus características ambientales e históricas. Los estudios de contextos funerarios revelan que estos grupos experimentaron una …

  • Salar de Infieles (25°S-69°O)

    Open AccessCarlos González Godoy, Patricio López Mendoza et al.ARTICLERevista del Museo de Antropología2023

    Se presentan los resultados de las excavaciones y análisis de artefactos, ecofactos y arte rupestre del sitio Infieles-1, Puna de Atacama, Chile. Este sitio se emplaza adyacente a un paredón de ignimbrita con diversas manifestaciones rupestres. El análisis de estas pinturas y grabado, junto a la excavación realizada permitió identificar tres ocupaciones alfareras. La primera se relaciona con portadores de cerámica Condorhuasi-Río Diablo del Forma…

  • Chronological sequence (early and late Holocene) and cultural trajectories in Quebrada Pedernales, southern Puna, Chile (26°S-3,456-3,730 masl)

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, Carlos Carrasco et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2023

  • Zooarqueología de todo un valle

    Open AccessPatricio López Mendoza, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLEArchaeofauna2023Referências: 1

    Se presentan y discuten los resultados del análisis zooarqueológico de 37 sitios arqueológicos del Valle de Mauro (31o57`S-71o01`O, ~900 msnm), emplazado en la franja meridional del Norte Semiárido del actual territorio chileno. Estos sitios abarcan una secuencia cronológica y cultural que va desde el Arcaico Tardío (ca. 3.400 años cal AP en adelante) hasta ocupaciones históricas, enfatizando la secuencia prehispánica asociada a eventos del Perío…

  • Provenance and long-term circulation of archaeological obsidian in the Puna de Copiapó (25-27°S), South-Central Andes

    Open AccessR Loyola, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023Citada por: 1Referências: 8

  • Huentelauquén coastal groups in the Andean highlands? An assessment of human occupations of the Early Holocene in Salar de Pedernales , Chile (26°S, 3356 masl)

    Patricio López-Mendoza, C Carrasco et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2022

    We present new evidence obtained in archaeological surveys in Quebrada Pedernales (3356 masl), in the southern puna of Chile (26°S; 69°W). A series of surface findings such as large lanceolate stemmed projectile points and geometric stones, together with chronostratigraphic and artifactual data recovered in excavations at the Pedernales-38 site, suggest that the coastal Huentelauquén groups explored and inhabited the Andean highlands between 10,1…

  • Pre-Hispanic dogs of the Semi-arid North of Chile

    Open AccessLucio González Venanzi, Francisco Juan Prevosti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2022Citada por: 1Referências: 26

  • Instrumentos musicales de viento del sitio El Olivar

    Open AccessPaola González Carvajal, Francisca Gili Hanisch et al.ARTICLERevista de Arqueología Americana2022Referências: 3

    Se aborda el estudio de dos instrumentos óseos prehispánicos diaguitas, procedentes del sitio arqueológico El Olivar (norte semiárido chileno), recobrados en contextos funerarios fechados alrededor del año 1100-1200 d.C. Los instrumentos fueron elaborados con huesos de camélido y aves trabajados y ensamblados. Aportamos información cronológica, arqueológica, bioantropológica, arqueofaunística e isotópica, que contextualiza estos entierros y sus p…

  • Caza de vicuñas en un refugio de las Tierras Altas de la Puna meridional de Chile (26° s)

    Open AccessPatricio López Mendoza, Patricio López-Mendoza et al.ARTICLEArchaeofauna2021Citada por: 2Referências: 10

    Se presentan los resultados del análisis zooarqueológico del sitio Pedernales-1, emplazado a 3.379 m.s.n.m. en el salar de Pedernales (Región de Atacama, Chile), datado en 2.964-3.206 años cal. AP para el componente más temprano y en 539-634 años cal. AP para el más tardío. El registro faunístico se compone principalmente por restos de vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) complementado con escasos restos de Lama sp., roedores, aves y carnívoros. De acuer- d…

  • El manejo territorial de los camélidos en la circumpuna de Atacama desde el Arcaico al Formativo (10.000-2400 aP)

    Open AccessPatricio López-Mendoza, Celeste Samec et al.ARTICLELatin American Antiquity2021Citada por: 1Referências: 7

    En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de los análisis de isótopos estables (δ 13 C col , δ 15 N col , δ 13 C apa y δ 18 O apa ) realizados en huesos de camélidos de sitios de Puripica, Tulán y Salar de Punta Negra (Región de Antofagasta, Chile), dentro de una secuencia que abarca desde el Arcaico temprano hasta el Formativo temprano. Estos datos se cotejaron con datos osteométricos y genéticos de camélidos silvestres y domésticos con el obj…

  • Hunting and feasting in the pre-Columbian Andes

    Open AccessR Loyola, Francisco Rivera et al.ARTICLEJournal of Anthropological…2021Citada por: 4Referências: 26

  • Depositional Contexts and New Age Controls for Terminal-Pleistocene Megafauna in North-central Chile (31°50′S)

    César Méndez, Roxana Seguel Quintana et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2020Citada por: 2Referências: 14

    Sites in north-central Chile have yielded late-Pleistocene megafauna bone remains, occasionally associated with human-made artifacts. However, little is known about the depositional characteristics, the conditions that allow their preservation, and how to identify recurrences facilitating their discovery. This work presents contextual and stratigraphic data, coupled with radiocarbon dates on bone material from surface findings and excavations con…

  • Animales metálicos

    Open AccessElvira Latorre, María Teresa Plaza Calonge et al.ARTICLEBoletín del Museo Chileno de Arte…2018

    En este artículo se exponen los resultados del análisis de pa trones visuales efectuado en 112 aros metálicos prehispánicos del norte semiárido de Chile. Estos demuestran la presencia de cuatro elementos de diseño mínimo organizados según pautas determinadas generando un número limitado de combina ciones. Cuatro de estas combinaciones podrían leerse como representaciones zoomorfas, a partir de lo cual se crearía una nueva clasificación de acuerdo…

  • The initial peopling of Central Western Patagonia (southernmost South America)

    Open AccessCésar Méndez, A Nuevo Delaunay et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2017Citada por: 19Referências: 27