…Middle Guatacondo Ravine, Region Iof Tarapacá. Timeframe: Approximately 100–1500 A.D. Site: Tamentica Source: A. M. Llamazares, 1993, “Arte rupestre de las quebradas de Guatacondo y Quisma, norte de Chile”, Boletín…
The geoglyph of Cerro Sagrado
…Five hundred years ago, Cerro Sagrado was a major site of worship among the locals and among the caravanners traveling along this route. In fact, bodies in the local cemetery…
The pictographs of Milla
…latter site. The Milla panels contain large-scale red pictographs painted onto rock walls that are highly visible from the valley floor. The combined use of lines and flat painting are…
The petroglyphs of Las Lizas
…There are many rock art sites on the desert coast of Northern Chile that contain images of marine species, but the site of Playa Las Lizasis one of…
History
…Some of the earliest evidence of the Chinchorro culture may have been found at Ancha, a site more than 8,000 years old located in the Azapa Valley of Chile….
Culto y Funebria
…children. In Chan Chan, a coastal site to the north of Valdivia, the body of a young person was found buried on its side in a highly flexed position, covered…
The pictographs of El Médano
…site has more than a thousand red-painted images that include silhouettes of black sperm, sperm and baleen whales, sea lions, swordfish, hammerhead sharks, rays, turtles and other sea creatures. The…
Settlement pattern
…roads running between them. This village was built at the peak of the Pica culture, and was probably the “headquarters” of this society. Caserones is another major site, also located…
The pictographs of Tambillo
…Quebrada de Quisma, Pica, I Region of Tarapacá Timeframe: Approximately 1000¬–1600 A.D. Site: Tambillo Source: A. M. Llamazares, 1993, “Arte rupestre de las quebradas de Guatacondo y Quisma, norte de…
The petroglyphs of Kalina
…Eight kilometers south of Alero de Taira is the archeological site of Calina Oeste, an open-air campcontaining the remains of several circular stone-walled dwellings. The camp’s former occupants…
Agricultural-pastoralists related toTiwanaku State
…southern Altiplano of the Central Andes. From their central settlement at the monumental site of Tiwanaku, they deployed two separate strategies to access resources and interact with groups on the…
Agricultural-pastoralists absorbed by the inca state
…gold panning site on the Marga Marga ravine, which flows into the ocean near the modern-day city of Viña del Mar. They also operated the San Bartolo copper mine, north…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…Though there is scant evidence of burial rites attributed to the Archaic Period, there is one notable case: the Patapatane cave in the Puna of Arica. This site contains…
Agriculturalists of the semi-arid north
…has been unearthed in downtown La Serena, while a Copiapó site has been discovered at Punta Brava, upstream from Tierra Amarilla. Nevertheless, unlike their counterparts living further north, these groups…
Hunter-gatherers of the southern zone
…Continuing a tradition begun at Monte Verde, the oldest site occupied by megafauna hunters in Chilean territory, the hunter-gatherers of southern Chile specialized in making use of the…
Tiwanaku Hats in Arica
…designs that evoke the stepped pyramids of that Alitplano site. The points of the hats represent the heads of these upward-gazing birds, and some of them even have wings….
Arte
…Little material evidence remains from this time period. However, some implements have been found at the Monte Verde site, including bolas and other stone tools and wood and bone…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…20cm (8 inches) deep and covered with branches, leaves and rocks. The deceased’s belongings were burned and the burial site avoided from then on as a place of ill fortune….
Social organization
…same site exchanged gifts; in general, however, families lived independently, only coming together for ceremonies or other special events, such as the beaching of a whale, which provided enough food…
Art
…coastal peoples produced. Well-known examples include those found at the El Médano site, located in a ravine to the north of Taltal. There, for about 10km (about 6 miles), the…
Historia
…(1889) and on the site of the future city of Río Grande (1896). The policy of concentrating the native population around the missions created the ideal conditions for the spread…
Economy
…Huapi. The Tehuelches’ contact with Europeans developed over time from occasional bartering to regular trade in established locations. One such place was the Dinamarquero archeological site in the Magallanes region….
History
…were moved away from the latter site when it was established as a Chilean naval base, and by the 1970s most had been moved to Villa Ukika. The government’s aim…
Historia
…The unique conditions of the site have preserved some evidence, allowing us a window into how these early hunters adapted to the rainforest environment. After the extinction of the megafauna,…