Camila Concepcion Alday Mamani

University of Cambridge | Cam · Department of Archaeology and Anthropology

This work proposes plant fiber technology as a pivotal element for both social and technological decisions made by early Hunter-Gatherer and Fisher groups (HGF) from Arica, particularly in the context of technological procedures involved in the manufacturing of plantbased artefacts along the north coast of Chile during ca.10000-3700 BP. To support...

The Egg and the Sperm by Emily Martin (1991) – an essay on misogynist narratives in Science – elucidates how scientific researches are not neutral endeavors, and Archaeology is no exception. Nevertheless, since gender studies and feminist theory arrived in our discipline, females and other “marginalized” voices have provided a new understanding o...

We present stable isotope and osteological data from human remains at Paloma, Chilca I, La Yerba III, and Morro I that offer new evidence for diet, lifestyle, and habitual mobility in the first villages that proliferated along the arid Pacific coast of South America (ca. 6000 cal BP). The data not only reaffirm the dietary primacy of marine protein...

This paper investigates plant fibre production on the south coast of Peru by studying plant fibre remains using archaeobotanical and structural analytical techniques. The archaeobotanical method refers to the identification of bast fibres using microscopic analysis of plant tissues. This study uses a reference collection of modern plants to complem...

Bast fiber artifacts from the Pacific coast of South America are among the earliest evidence of fabric manipulation and the foundation of the millennial Andean textile tradition. Recent examinations of plant macro remains and plant fiber artifacts from La Yerba II (7570–6674 cal BP) and La Yerba III (6485–5893 cal BP) sites provide insight into how...

Las plantas como materia prima textil son una ventana para entender las dinámicas culturales en la costa del Pacífico. El cultivo de algodón (Gossypium barbadense), originario de América del Sur hace aproximadamente 6000 años, se convirtió en un recurso textil esencial para la producción de redes, artefactos de pesca y tejidos. Cuando el algodón se...

El sitio Cueva La Capilla 1 es un contexto clave para entender los procesos de cambio social que vivieron las comunidades cazadoras, recolectoras y pescadoras costeras hacia fines del período Arcaico en la costa exorreica del extremo norte de Chile, Desierto de Atacama. Presentamos el análisis de múltiples evidencias provenientes de excavaciones re...

Archivo KML (Keyhole Markup Language) con los polígonos de los sitios registrados en los cursos Bajo y Medio del Valle de Camarones

Fabric plants-as of bast and cotton fibres, are key to approaching social complexity in early Andean communities on the Pacific coast. Cotton (Gossypium barbadense) was domesticated on the Pacific coast of South America to become a critical material for nets and fabrics, entailing innovations in the manufacture of textile crafts such as the shift f...

G. barbadense, indigenous to South America's tropical lowlands has an unparallel legacy for the story of modern textile industries and fishing economies worldwide; yet long before being largely cultivated around the world, G. barbadense had first become a critical textile material-and likely cultivated 6301-6133 cal. yrs. BP among coastal hunter-ga...

Diversity in Archaeology is the result of the fourth Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference (CASA 4), held virtually from January 14–17, 2021. CASA developed out of the Annual Student Archaeology Conference, first held in 2013, which was formed by students at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and York. In 2017, Cambridge became the home of the con...

To ‘engender’ the past and archaeological thinking, we undoubtedly need to change the way Archaeology is practised. Thus, it is the archaeologist’s duty to expose ‘false’ dichotomies in archaeological narratives, critically investigate gender as multivalent beyond fixed categories and produce intricate but more accurate understandings of human expe...

This research investigates fibre technologies among the people of the coastal Andean Preceramic Period (10,000 – 3,500 BP) by studying the technological production process of bast fibre artefacts from five Preceramic archaeological sites in Peru and Chile. The raw materials, technological processes and manufacturing techniques were identified throu...

This study presents the results of an archaeobotanical analysis of the hunter-gatherer’s plant-fiber technologies of South America’s west coast. Due to the extreme aridity of the Atacama Desert, the preservation of organic technologies is exceptional. I analyze a unique assemblage of nets, looped bags, twinned mats, fiber skirts, and cordages datin...

Despite the importance of deserts in many societies and although deserts cover almost twenty per cent of the world, few efforts have been made to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of how humans have adapted to these arid climes. Inspired by the seminal work, Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives (Veth et al. 2005), our volume aims to broaden...

Despite the importance of deserts in many societies and although deserts cover almost twenty per cent of the world, few efforts have been made to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of how humans have adapted to these arid climes. Inspired by the seminal work, Desert Peoples: Archaeological perspectives (Veth et al. 2005), our volume aims to broaden...

This research aims to study the earliest fabric artifacts made by marine hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Peru-Chile desert coast. Thanks to the aridity of this area, I use a remarkable amount of well-preserved plant-fiber materials, most belonging to the world’s oldest Chinchorro mummies buried more than 7,000 years ago. Fibers in these pre-cera...

Although deserts cover more than twenty per cent of the world, few efforts have been made to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of how humans have adapted to these arid climes. Inspired by the seminal work, Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives (2005) by P. Veth et al., this volume aims to broaden current case studies beyond the scope of hunte...

La información fue recolectada durante los años 2010 y 2014 tras varias jornadas de campo, en las que serecorrió a pie una distancia lineal de 40 km. Para ejecutar las labores de campo, y en paralelo, poder presentar la información disponible en este catastro, se contó con el fnanciamiento del fondo concursable “FONDART Regional - Conservación y Di...

Los antecedentes arqueológicos relativos al Periodo Arcaico (sin cal. 10.500 y 3.500 a.P.) en la costa del extremo Norte de Chile centran su atención en los contextos funerarios, principalmente en la momificación artificial y en su variable cronológica. No obstante, desde dichos contextos es posible abstraer otras interpretaciones que destacan la i...

La siguiente propuesta busca caracterizar los procesos tecnológicos involucrados en la manufactura de artefactos en fibra vegetal del sitio La Capilla 1, ubicado en la costa sur de Arica. Para esto se describe la cadena operativa asociada a su elaboración, mediante la identificación de los pasos secuenciales de aprovisionamiento, tratamiento y prod...

Resumen. Se presentan los resultados de prospeccio-nes sistemáticas realizadas en la costa y cursos bajos de la quebrada de Vítor y el valle de Camarones. Estos datos, sumados a los ya conocidos de la costa de Arica y los valles de Lluta y Azapa, demuestran que la pintu-ra no fue una técnica común para la realización de arte rupestre en estos secto...