Catherine Westfall

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This paper presents the initial comparative findings of archaeometric analyses conducted for turquoise provenance determination involving samples from two distinct mining sources located in Chile and Argentina. It summarizes the outcomes of initial, collaborative, and interdisciplinary binational research combining the fields of Archaeology and Che...

RESUMEN: A continuación, se exponen nuevos antecedentes arqueológicos de los alrededores de Campos de Hielo Norte (CHN), identificado a través del registro marino, fluvial, lacustre y pedestre in situ. Junto con una síntesis de los antecedentes previos en un área de extensión aproximada de 35.000 km², se reportan 30 sitios complementados por el aná...

RESUMEN Se presentan los resultados obtenidos mediante el rescate y análisis de una serie de contextos ar-queológicos identiicados en la zona de Pampa Autral, ubicada al norte de Diego de Almagro, al interior de la Región de Atacama de Chile. La diversidad del universo lítico analizado muetra una proporción direta entre el tipo de locación y sus ca...

Cultural Prehistorical Sequence of the Las Turquesas Mine is assessed as well as its relationships to other archaeological zones located north and south of the prehispanic turquoise mine.

Historial Colonial Archaeology from excavations undertaken in downtown Santiago, Chile

The cholera pandemia that affected the central region of Chile between the end of the year 1886 and the beginning of 1888 caused the death of over 28,000 people. Until now, this tragic event had only been registered and studied by documental sources. In 2003, during a highway construction project, what had been known through the archives as the �Ch...

Mitocondrial and Nuclear DAN analysis of prehispanic Formative poblations at a funerary site in Calama, Northern Chile

A methodological approach using geochemical techniques to define specific areas within two prehispanic archaeological sites of Northern Chile

Analysis artefactual of shells recovered from the Las Turquesas prehispanic mine (El Salvador, Chile)

Geological apllicationes for the analyses of metal and lithic archaeological materials found at the Chorrillos prehispanic cementery (Calama, Chile)

The recent archaeological reevaluation of the only known mummified remains from the Cementerio Las Turquesas site, links its bioanthropological and material contexts to the nearby residential and turquoise mining site of Mina Las Turquesas, recently excavated. Fieldwork there provided evidence of a long-span preinka settlement, and our appraisal re...

Methodology based on theoretical principles of Landscape Archaeology applied to the archaeological research and conservation of a 4-kilometer stretch of the Inca road system in El Salvador. This article analyzes the implications of the transdisciplinary work (archaeology and conservation) within the context of possible social uses of this archaeolo...

Archaeological study of a part of the Inkan Road system near an active cooper mine in Northern Chile.

Atacameño Prehistory seen through the lens of the El Salvador archaeological sites (Chile)

The present article is a critical review of archaeologists' participation in the Chilean Environmental Impact Studies System (SEIA), according to the environmental bases set in law 19.300. The difficulties and challenges proposed by this area of studies and their meaning as a new research strategy in archaeology is assessed

The present article is a critical review of archaeologists' participation in the Chilean Environmental Impact Studies System (SEIA), according to the environmental bases set in law 19.300. The difficulties and challenges proposed by this area of studies and their meaning as a new research strategy in archaeology is assessed.

Systemic of pipes in prehistorical archaeological contexts in central and southern Chile

INTRODUCION Al igual que en la gran mayoría de los ríos importantes de la región central de nuestro país, el valle del Cachapoal ha sido -desde antiguo-un importante polo de atracción para el asentamiento humano. Esto lo atestiguan las numerosas ciudades, pueblos y villorios que se encuentran en sus márgenes. No obstante, el acelerado crecimiento u...