Art
…by both gender and social standing. In Kollasuyu, Inka textiles combined the esthetics of Tawantinsuyu with the traditional styles of the region. The same was true of ceramics, as local…
The pictographs of El Médano
…most complex images depict scenes of human figures aboard tiny sea lion skin rafts throwing roped harpoons into the sides of enormous whales. In these scenes, the vessels and crews…
Economy
…The economies of these communities were based on extensive agriculture and livestock raising, taking advantage of the water from ravines by building systems of terraced gardens and irrigation canals….
Mina prehistórica Las Turquesas. Región de Atacama
…la mina de cobre que lo comprueba. Realizado para la exposición El arte del cobre en el mundo andino. Francisco Gallardo y Claudio Mercado / 11 minutos / 2004…
Economy
…The three distinct environments in which the groups of the Arica culture settled—mountain, valley and coast—allowed them access to complementary resources from different ecological strata. Surplus goods were moved…
Agricultural-pastoralists related toTiwanaku State
…western side of the Andes: In the northernmost valleys they established colonies of their own people, who lived alongside and interacted intensely, both culturally and socially, with the local population….
Historia
…In many ways, the Las Ánimas groups broke with the past to begin a new cultural tradition. The formerly common tembetás or lip adornments of the El Molle culture…
Hunter-gatherers of the central Chile
During the final stage of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, a few herds of huge herbivores still roamed around parts of the Central Valley, especially near bodies of water…
By pass Temuco: Ta iñ newentumun
…cultural. Este documental indaga en los significados del espacio simbólico y la tierra para las comunidades mapuche afectadas por este proyecto vial. Realización Esteban Villarroel. Producción Fondo Matta, Museo Chileno…
History
…included communities as far away as the Atacama Desert, where similar ceremonial practices were already in use. In fact, these two peoples shared a common ritual language that enabled the…
Agricultural-pastoralists of the arid north
…Both farming and herding required a great deal of collective labor, which in turn led to the emergence of a more complex social structurein which the existence of local authorities…
Paño: inkuña
…en la iconografía religiosa de las culturas contemporáneas del altiplano peruano-boliviano, como Pucara y Chiripa. Comparte con los tejidos tempranos andinos, el rasgo técnico de encadenar las orillas finales de…
Environment and Location
The Semi-arid North of Chile is a territory in which the Andes Mountains and the Coastal Mountains converge, virtually eliminating the Intermediate Depression, with rivers forming transversal valleys…
The petroglyphs of Las Lizas
…figures in all, the most common ones being sharks, dolphins and tuna fish, with a smaller proportion of swordfish and a few other fish, namely sardines, tollo, sole and red…
Indigenous Stories
…are passed down from generation to generation, transforming in details by maintaining the main argument of each story. Therefore it is common to have different versions of the same story….
Culto y Funebria
Ceramic and stone pipes have frequently been found at sites formerly occupied by Llolleo groups, which indicates that they may have used hallucinogenic substances in their social rituals….
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…
Patrón de Asentamiento
…The early inhabitants of Patagonia were highly mobile and ranged freely over hundreds of kilometers, taking advantage of both the open woodland and the steppe environments. They returned time…
Marine fisher-hunter-gatherers of the Arid North
Given their already intimate knowledge of marine resources, the introduction of the fishhook prompted a major turning point in the lives of the marine hunter-gatherers of the…