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En las últimas décadas se ha presenciado el surgimiento de un interés sin precedentes en la arqueología del pasado contemporáneo. Aquí, basado en la investigación, presento un análisis diacrónico de un incendio que destruyó parcialmente una casa de fines del siglo XIX o principios del XX en la ciudad de Arica, Chile. Combinando métodos históricos,...
In this article, I archaeologically scrutinize the construction of modern frontiers. By considering a small section of the current Chilean northernmost border and a patch of the Atacama Desert territory, I interrogate the relationship between landscape and monumentality, used in the production of national borders. In order to accomplish my goal, I...
In this article, I advance understanding of the political dimensions of ritual in archaeology. Ritual practice has been commonly identified within a dualistic schema in which common or everyday activities are set against (and apart from) those practices that have special significance. Conventionally, the latter belong to the realm of ritual in whic...
The archaeology of South America provides long-term context for problems in many disciplines, including history, anthropology, linguistics, ethnohistory, political science, biology, and ecology. Using a comparison between the Andes Mountains and the Amazon River, this article briefly reviews the history of the discipline, and outlines recent develo...
This session aims to bring together archaeological research on contemporary migration and its multiple impacts on societies. Although mobility has been recognised as a constant in human history, studies of this phenomenon in modern and contemporary times have been predominantly addressed as "a crisis" in Europe and North America and mainly discusse...
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The COVID-19 pandemic raises questions about curation, collecting,
and the ethics of documenting a traumatic event as it occurs in real
time. Such concerns became clear as the co-authors embarked on
a multi-sited study of the pandemic’s impact on four communities in
two different countries. Defining an ‘artefact’ or what is archaeological,...
One of the main goals of public archaeology is to facilitate the public access to the past. This paper constitutes an attempt to address this challenge and tackle one of the most significant, and burgeoning, problems for museums (the saturation of deposit spaces). We conducted a pedagogical experience that, seeking to entice young audiences, result...
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every facet of our world, including some of the most fundamental forms of human behavior and our conception of the social. Everyday activities now pose a risk to individuals and to society as a whole. This radical shift in how we live has produced a wide array of material responses across the globe. This p...
En este trabajo se describen las relaciones que las sociedades humanas establecieron con su entorno durante el período Formativo (3000-1000 aP) en la Pampa del Tamarugal, Desierto de Atacama, desde una perspectiva teórico-metodológica que pone el acento en el potencial del registro ecofactual. Éste, al mediar entre lo cultural y lo ambiental, propo...
Prólogo: sobre la posibilidad de otros paisajes: convenciones, paisajes, humo, memorias y monumentos Volumen 50, N° 2, 2018. Páginas 269-271 Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena El estudio de paisajes en la arqueología cobró un inusitado interés hace algunas décadas cuando fue planteado como una alternativa a una arqueología que-influenciada am...
"The Tarapacá Declaration" draws attention to the urgent need to change how human societies have been using water in the Atacama Desert, based on a historical trajectory spanning several millennia. The Declaration, an initiative that summarizes the results of the CONICYT/PIA, Anillo project SOC1405, is oriented towards civil society and various pol...
Rituals of the Past: Prehispanic and Colonial Case Studies in Andean Archaeology. SILVANA A. ROSENFELD and STEFANIE L. BAUTISTA, editors. 2017. University Press of Colorado, Boulder. xiii + 321 pp., 65 illustrations, references and index. $81.00 (hardcover) ISBN 9781607325956, $65.00 (ebook) ISBN 9781607325963. - Volume 29 Issue 3 - Dante Angelo
El "Acta de Tarapacá" constituye un llamado de atención sobre la necesidad de cambiar la manera como las sociedades humanas han estado utilizando el agua en el Desierto de Atacama, mediante una perspectiva histórica a lo largo de milenios. El Acta, una iniciativa que resume los resultados del proyecto CONICYT/PIA Anillo SOC1405 "Cambios Sociales y...
Prehistoric human groups in the Atacama Desert developed socio-cultural complexities despite living in the world’s driest desert. Different technological adaptations were developed as part of their interactions with variable environments over the last 14,000 years.
Understanding how human societies interacted with environmental changes is a major goal of archaeology and other socio-natural sciences. In this paper, we assess the human-environment interactions in the Pampa del Tamarugal (PDT) basin of the Atacama Desert over the last 13,000 years. By relying on a socio-environmental model that integrates ecosys...
A short glance to the life of a remarkable archaeologist.
Recent social violence in Bolivia is examined in the context of that country's dominant historical narratives. The practice of archaeology in Bolivia is intimately tied to the development of nationalism and a history of colonialism. While the history of Bolivian archaeology has seen multiple interpretations of the past, the dominant voices have con...
The study of psychotropic plants in Andean cultures has received considerable attention, especially the topics regarding the importance of its use as part of ceremonies and rituals that were held in different Andean societies. Nevertheless, very few of them consider the importance of this plants and other goods as essential parts of the exchange re...
