The Pica culture flourished during the Late Intermediate period, also known as the Regional Development period. Building on routes established through their relations with the Tiwanaku Empire in…
Story of the Forbidden Otter and the Great Flood
…killed the ottersurvived by running, they say, to the top of a hill, to the top of the hill he ran, they say. And at the top of thehill he…
Beliefs and funeral rites
In the Copiapó and Huasco valleys, the El Molle people usually buried their dead in artificial earth and stone mounds encircled by a line of stones. Most of…
Art
The Pica people are perhaps most well known for their geoglyphs, but they also produced notable examples of rock art, leaving behind engraved boulders (petroglyphs) at many sites….
Pre-hispanic music of Chile
We have little direct knowledge of the pre-Hispanic music of Chile—just a few instruments found preserved at archeological sites, where conditions allowed. Few such instruments have been discovered…
Carnaval Isluga
…Música de la celebración de carnaval en el pueblo aymara de Isluga, altiplano de la I región, Chile. Ruedas mankasaya y araksaya Descargar carátula…
Economy
The Diaguitas of Huasco Alto, in the Tránsito River Valley, have an extensive territory they inherited from the old colonial “Indian Town”, which covers 370,000 hectares and was…
Language
…to southern Peru. In the Bolivian Altiplano and Northern Chile, Quechua is still spoken in some indigenous communities whose historic origins include groups that were moved by the Inca Empire…
The Sacrificer
The Sacrificer is an Andean figure who carries an axe in one hand and a severed head in the other. He appears in rock art and on…
The geoglyph of Cerro Sagrado
Cerro Sagrado (Sacred Mount) is located in the Azapa Valley, eight kilometers from the Pacific coast. The mountain slope that faces the valley holds a geoglyph outlined…
Yámana
The music of the Yámana, like that of all the indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego, was characterized by the absence of all musical instruments except the voice,…
Flutes and “Chinos”
…The history of the flutes of Central Chile began some 2000 years ago on the southern coast of Peru, when musicians and artists of the Parakas culture invented…
Inka Provincial Ceramics
…rule. The aríbalo was used to store and transport chicha, a local corn beer that was often enjoyed at social meetings or gatherings. The pedestal pot, which often had a…
Location and Environment
…waters that run down the slopes of this abrupt landscape join to form the Inacaliri and Cabana rivers, which are further fed by the waters of the Silala River, originating…
Agricultural-pastoralists absorbed by the inca state
…rule meant that economic activities that previously had been structured around self-sufficiency or small-scale exchange now were planned around the interests of the Inca State. The Incas’ greatest interest in…
The Southern Cross
…The bola that remained in the sky became the Belt of Orion. The people say that Kakn runs through the firmament to this day. Myths of Chile Dictionary of beings,…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…According to their myths, the Tehuelche descended from higher beings. Their supreme being was called Kooch, the all powerful ruler of the cosmos, creator of the sun and moon….
Settlement patterns
The Tehuelche were a nomadic hunter-gatherer society whose groups traveled around from season to season across a wide range, following the same routes for centuries, making them into…