…English would use a whole phrase. For instance, the term Aruskipasipxañanakasakipunirakispawa means “let us hope that there will always be dialogue between us”. The Aymara tongue is currently spoken by…
History
…have referred to the same ethnic group. Nonetheless, it seems that the term ‘Chango’ generally refers not to a specific people, but to all those who practiced this maritime way…
Economy
…skin of their prey to make a variety of implements and clothing. To complement their diet, they probably gathered fruit from the surrounding forests and water plants from nearby lakes….
Economía
…The El Molle people grew maize, squash, quinoa and probably cotton, tilling the land using stone shovels and hoes and channeling water from the ravines. They also hunted wild…
History
…continued to this day. After the extinction of the megafauna, the cornerstone of their early economy, these groups became experts in hunting smaller species, giving way to the Archaic Period….
Kai Kai y Treng Treng
…the mountaintops. Just when they could ascend no more, they heard a voice coming from deep within the earth, calling treng, treng, treng. It was the divine serpent come to…
Economy
…irrigation works and farming terraces to grow maize and quinoa, taking advantage of the water that flowed down their ravines from the high mountains after the summer rains. They also…
Social organization
…lived in small family bands that enabled them to move around easily, as their hunting way of life required, with a division of labor based only on age and sex….
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….
Marine hunter-gatherers
…At almost the same time that the terrestrial hunter-gatherer way of life emerged inland, along Chile’s extensive coastline other groups relied on the coastal environment as their main…
Aymara
…war of sound, with residents dividing up into the “upper” and “lower” town groups, which compete to see who will be the best, the loudest and the most long-winded singer….
History
…early period gave way to subsequent stages marked by key events—the establishment of trade routes to and from the Tiwanaku Empire, and incorporation into the Inka Empire. The caravan trade…
Marine hunters, fishers and gatherers
…The invention of fish hooks and then seagoing vessels by some early marine hunter-gatherer groups was a turning point that transformed their way of life, transforming fishing into…
Horticulturalist-pastoralists
…shaped a way of life in which tending sown fields and livestock herds accelerated the process of sedentarism itself. In turn, the keeping of camelids—which in addition to being a…
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…
Farmers and herders with central organization
…in the arid north and the Inka expansion into northern Chile. In both cases, the way of life revolved around a centralized authority, who organized the economy into a macro-regional…
Environment and Location
…land from the Pacific coast all the way to the Andean foothills. Between the forest and the eternal snows of the high Andes are forests of Araucaria trees, a coniferous…
The Story of the Toads
…story goes. Some toads who were frozen in their canoe were steering their vessel, almost dead with cold, goes the story. And the toads’ canoe was destroyed, And when they…
Toasting, Inka Style
…In the past, toasting with alcoholic beverages was both a central element of Andean celebrations and a political ritual. When the Inka arrived to conquer a region, they…
Economy
…pasture and water, moving from winter to summer grazing grounds in the foothills. Today, herding is still practiced by some Collas in Potrerillos and Quebrada de Paipote, while those near…
History
…The indigenous people of Copiapó and Chañaral provinces were given the name of Collas in the 19th century, but the term was also used generally to refer to other…
Economy
…nearby frost-free ravines such as Puquios, Cohasa, Del Inca, Caichape and Amincha. In the San Pedro River zone, in contrast, agriculture was abandoned many years ago due to the lack…
Eras
…and customs, among many other transcendental aspects for the development of our society. Select one of the Eras and be surprised walking through a virtual gallery of works present in…
Agricultural-pastoralists absorbed by the inca state
…ways of life—their forced incorporation into Tawantinsuyu, the powerful Inca Empire that emerged from Cusco to expand across the continent and ultimately stretch from southern Colombia to central Chile. Imperial…