…According to the Mapuche cosmovision, in the beginning there was only air, and the master of that air was called Ngen, a powerful spirit who dwelt among other spirits….
Caicai and Trentren
…witnessed the ingratitude of humans for everything the sea had provided for them. Furious, he hit the water with his tail, causing a great wave to flood the earth. Terrified,…
History
…nobility and priest-elders, warriors and stone and wood craftsmen. He also brought the household items, plants and animals needed to sustain the settlers. Rapa Nui’s prehistory, history and present day…
Llama Caravans in the Desert
…farming communities. The caravans required male cargo llamas, a network of cattle trails and rudimentary way stations with suitable forage, water, firewood, and shelter. These llama trains usually consisted of…
Terrestrial hunter-gatherers
…As the climate stabilized into conditions similar to the present-day, around 11,000 years ago, and the megafauna that flourished during the Ice Age became extinct, a foundation was…
Beliefs and funeral rites
…bestow riches such as pasture land, minerals and water. The people associate these peaks with farming success, fertility, weather and health, as well as personal protection and prosperity, honoring them…
Agriculturalists of the semi-arid north
…way of life centered on the large-scale cultivation of corn. Along with this change, these groups’ longstanding relations with societies of northwest Argentina would bring new cultural influences to their…
Hunter-gatherers of the Arid North
…At the end of the Pleistocene, the hunter-gatherers of the arid north hada way of life based on their regular movement from the lowlands to the edge of…
History
…The Azapa people were the heirs of the coastal Archaic tradition and retained an economy based on marine resources, but they also introduced a new horticultural way of life…
Cultural evolution
…The evolution of societies is classified according to Ways of Life, which describe the primary way in which groups organized themselves to survive, including the technologies they used and…
History
…between the Bío Bío Rover and Reloncaví Sound. When the Spanish came to this region, however, the Mapuche tongue of Mapudungun was in use all the way from the Choapa…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…Given their highly mobile way of life, the hunter gatherers of Central Chile did not establish villages, but for centuries in their seasonal nomadic circuits they used the same…
History
…While those in Tagua Tagua still practiced a Paleo-Indian way of life that was based on the hunting of large game (megafauna), in the mountains of Central Chile the…
Settlement pattern
…The Cabuza lived in small villages and hamlets located close to water sources. Their dwellings had a rectangular floor plan and a stone foundation and reed-and-cane walls tied together…
Settlement pattern
…third-order centers for local administration and countless fourth-order settlements based on agriculture and livestock production. The peasant class lived in modest dwellings with mud walls and straw roofs built upon…
Art
…gradually, free from external influences. The oldest of these platforms feature large walls composed of enormous blocks of lava fitted together with incredible precision. The first moais also date to…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…For thousands of years these people made largely opportunistic use of rock shelters and open air sites, living a highly mobile way of life in the steppe regions of…
Historia
…After arriving in these regions during the Paleo-Indian period, the inland hunters of Chile’s far southern regions adapted to the steppe environment in ways that allowed their continuing habitation…
Culto y Funebria
…These southern inland hunters buried their dead in a variety of ways. The most common type of burial is that of the steppe peoples of historic times, who placed…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…up, full of sea shells from their food waste. In some locations they dug out shallow pits in these middens to build their shelters, making walls from the shells. In…
History
…them and left short descriptions of their lifestyle and the vessels they used to navigate the coastal waters. The Chonos are thought to have interacted with the Huilliche people of…
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….
Center
…provinces of ‘Chili,’ which was both the name of one of the area’s central valleys and a reference to the cool climate of that land. The expedition journeyed to the…
Settlement pattern
…They located their residential camps and semi-permanent villages along the tributary ravines and upper reaches of the region’s river valleys, always close to water courses and in sheltered areas…