The Colla’s traditional economy is based on herding and, to a lesser degree, agriculture. In former times, the Collas had a more diversified economy that included firewood extraction…
Horticultural-pastoralists of the arid north
In the highlands of the Arid North, in places such as the Tulan ravine and the Atacama salt flat, the pronged contact that human groups had with…
Germán Tejerina. Música de los Pueblos Atacameños.
…Don Germán Tejerina (nacido en 1937 en Séquitor) canta y cuenta la memoria de San Pedro de Atacama del último siglo. Coplas, cuecas, torito, historias. Presentación Ayayai Comentario. el…
Language
…and agglutinative; its nouns can be verbalized and subjectivized to form complex words that can be equivalent to a whole phrase in English. Kawésqar vocabulary is rich with terms for…
Art
…de piedra con figuras de llamas con formas humanas. El estilo de arte rupestre de este período, conocida como Taira-Tulán, se caracteriza por grabados de grandes representaciones de camélidos naturalistas…
Economy
…Quechua community economies vary by geographic zone. The Quechuas of Ollagüe and San Pedro primarily raise livestock and practice limited agriculture, as well as sometimes gathering wild plants and…
Polynesian horticultural-fisher-gatherers
…Rapa Nui people became a society capable of carrying out large-scale, technically complex collective works. Their legacy includes huge ceremonial platforms, called ahus, upon which they erected great stone sculptures,…
Polynesian horticultural-fisher-gatherers
…Nui people became a society capable of carrying out large-scale, technically complex collective works. Their legacy includes huge ceremonial platforms, called ahus, upon which they erected great stone sculptures, moais,…
Entonación del Zurdo
…nombrada por don Chosto como La del Tarifeño. Toca Santos Rubio. casa de don Chosto, El Principal de Pirque, 2007. Este video forma parte de los fragmentos de archivos del…
Agriculturalists of the Center
…also required communal activities such as irrigation works and greater control over the territory. Over time, these changes led to the emergence of a new cultural tradition, the Aconcagua, though…
Hunter-gatherers of the Arid North
…the pampa, already completely arid, passing through foothill ravines to reach the Altiplano or Puna. These groups specialized in extracting the resources of the Andean upland meadows, especially when environmental…
History
…herders of northern Chile, with whom they traded. Later still, these coastal groups may have come under the domination of the Inka empire. Due to the extensive genetic and cultural…
El zorro y el cóndor (Animation, spanish)
…Animación en plasticina basada en una leyenda recogida en la localidad de Ayquina (II región, norte de Chile). El cuento, común a la narrativa tradicional de los andes sur,…
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…
Horticulturalists of the central zone
…though unlike their predecessors adopted ceramic making on a large scale. Over time, however, and especially after corn was introduced, groups such as the Llolleo became almost completely sedentary, although…
Agriculturalists of the South
…Vergel. Si bien no incluyeron animales domesticados en su economía, hay evidencias de que estos grupos transportaron guanacos en balsas a sus asentamientos insulares como en la Isla Mocha, lo…
Horticulturalists of the southern zone
…groups comes fromcemeteries, including one discovered during the construction of a highway bypass in the city of Temuco. According to this evidence, around 1100 A.D. the Pitrén gave way to…
Language
…largely unrelated tribes. It has also been suggested that the coastal groups shared a common language that differed from those of the mountain and desert peoples and enabled them to…
Art
…Traditional ceramic and textile arts are still practiced in some Quechua communities. Pottery is manufactured primarily for domestic use and includes large urns for storing food and drink, and…