…The ancient inhabitants of Patagonia painted representations of their cosmic vision on the walls of the rock shelters they inhabited, illustrating the high degree of ideological complexity that they…
Economy
…prey and used their bones to craft artifacts such as piercing tools. It is likely that they supplemented their diet with water plants and fruit gathered in the surrounding forests….
Economía
…way to an increasing sedentary and complex society. Evidence shows that the Llolleo people ground their grain into flour and had tame guanacos. On the coast, evidence of Llolleo settlements…
Economy
…The hunter-gatherer way of life is characterized by an economy based on hunting, fishing and gathering resources for food and other uses. These groups hunted a variety of species,…
Economy
…The economy of these inland hunters was based mainly on a highly mobile way of life sustained by hunting of guanaco and, to a lesser extent, of deer, foxes,…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…The Bato had small settlements or semi-permanent shelters for their small and fairly mobile population. Their chosen sites were generally, but not always, located close to major water courses….
Art
…Their tools, utensils and dwellings were simply but skillfully made and were specially suited to their nomadic, seafaring way of life. The Chango culture adopted raw materials, technologies and objects…
Culto y Funebria
…perforated stones, grinding instruments and ceramic recipients, most of which were intentionally broken or damaged. Children were buried in ceramic urns similar to those made for cooking or holding water….
Prehistory
…For nearly 15,000 years, Chile has been home to a wide variety of indigenous cultures, each with its own unique way of life. Some of these have disappeared forever,…
Culto y Funebria
…Some of these sites were also used as dwelling places and transitory camps. On the coast, individuals were buried in middens, heaps of waste shells left over from the extraction…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…Inside their dwellings, these hunter-gatherers installed floors of mortar made of seaweed ash and sea water, which were laid to cover the bodies of their dead. Red pigment was…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…Though little evidence remains, these groups seem to have established settlements along the main water courses of the region and only occupied more distant sites occasionally, probably because the…
Settlement pattern
…usually located around river mouths and ravines with a year-round source of fresh water. Their dwellings were used for both the living and the dead. They moved frequently along the…
History
…The El Molle people were heirs to the hunter-gatherer tradition of the Archaic period, but they developed a new way of life based on horticulture and village life. They…