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The Arenal 1 site in central southern Chile is renowned for its chicken DNA evidence suggesting pre-Columbian contacts with Polynesia. Debates around the chronology of the site and the lack of additional evidence supporting contact, gave origin to a new archaeological excavation focusing on refining the site's chronology and recovering further arch...
Libro de divulgación científica expone el resultado del Catastro Provincial Arqueológico efectuado en las provincias de Llanquihue y Chiloé realizado por un equipo de académicos y colaboradores de la Escuela de Arqueología de la Universidad Austral de Chile, sede Puerto Montt. El proceso de recopilación de información fue acompañado por una serie d...
RESUMEN Este artículo retoma el trabajo en Rey Don Felipe (Puerto del Hambre), dando continuidad a las investigaciones iniciadas hace medio siglo por el arqueólogo Omar Ortiz-Troncoso. Se resume el conocimiento histórico-arqueológico previo y se dan a conocer nuevos análisis estratigráficos, artefactuales y ecofactuales obtenidos a partir de prospe...
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...
During the Formative period by the Late-Holocene (ca. 3000–1500 BP), semi-sedentary and sedentary human occupations had emerged in the oases, salares, and riverine systems in the central depression (2400–1000 masl) of the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (19–25°S). This hyperarid core was marginally occupied during the post-Pleistocene and middle Hol...
Resumen Los cetáceos se cuentan entre los mamíferos de mayor tamaño en los océanos y han sido de gran importancia para la vida social de diferentes culturas desde épocas muy antiguas. Entre los pueblos que habitaban las costas de América, su consumo favoreció la especialización económica, ceremonias y festines al servicio de la integración social....
This contribution presents preliminary ndings from on-going archaeological research work conducted at morro Vilcún, in the vicinity of Chaitén. Here, the midden strewn oor of two adjacent coastal caves (Cueva Grande and Cueva Alta) were excavated. For Cueva Grande, a basal radiocarbon date of ca. 700 yrs cal AP was obtained and provides a maximum a...
This paper reports the archaeological materials from a unique child burial recently discovered in Tierra del Fuego. Preliminary analyses are consistent with the idea that the burial belongs to the Selk’nam culture. Although the Selk’nam archaeological record is abundant, very little is known about their mortuary practices. In this well-preserved bu...
Along the Atacama Desert coast, fish has always been a staple food and by the Formative period (500 cal B.C.-700 cal A.D.) it had become a product in high demand by the inhabitants of the inland valleys, oases and ravines of the desert. In this paper we explore the technologies used in coastal fishing activities, the diverse species caught, and fis...
La arqueología del litoral del desierto de Atacama ha con-centrado sus estudios en un espectro reducido de animales, sobre representando los más tradicionales, conocidos y populares, como peces, camélidos y otáridos, en desmedro de otros con un registro más acotado pero igualmente significativo. Presentamos una reflexión acerca de las relaciones en...
Presentamos el reporte inicial de recientes excavaciones de un asentamiento con arquitectura lapidaria cercano a la ciudad de Mejillones en el litoral del desierto de Atacama, datado hacia los 5000 cal. AP. Discutimos a través de su evidencia material la estrategia de importación hacia el campamento de una producción extendida geográficamente en di...
Castillo, C., B. Ballester, E. Calás, R. Labarca y F. Gallardo 2017 La ruta de los peces más allá del litoral: sobre el ciclo del pescado seco en el desierto de Atacama (periodo Formativo). En Monumentos funerarios de la costa del desierto de Atacama. Los cazadores-recolectores marinos y sus intercambios (500 a.C.-700 d.C.), editado por F. Gallardo...
La vida en comunidad de los cazadores-pescadores marinos del desierto de Atacama (4000-2000 cal. a.C.)
Se realizaron excavaciones en el patio del Cuartel General de Bomberos de Santiago con el objetivo de localizar restos arquitectónicos y artefactuales de la presencia inca en el sector de Plaza de Armas, de la ciudad de Santiago. Se encontró evidencia cerámica de ocupación Tawantinsuyu en distintos niveles, los que aparecieron mezclados con restos...
In this paper, we present a detailed description of armadillo osteoderms recovered in the Caleta Huelén 20 cemetery (Late Formative), located at the mouth of Loa river. Based on studies of morphological and metric attributes of the carapace mobile bands, the materials are assigned to Chaetophractus vellerosus. Its presence at the site, beyond its p...
El sitio arqueológico Punta Baxa 7 es un extenso yacimiento caracterizado como un agregado de diversas concentraciones de material arqueológico (conchales, talleres líticos, restos óseos humanos y fauna). Ubicado en Primera Angostura, en la orilla sur del estrecho de Magallanes, presenta evidencia de depósitos en estratigrafía que fueron sujeto de...
Punta Baxa 7 archeological site is characterized as an aggregate of archaeological concentrations (shell middens, lithic workshops and concentrations of human and animal bones). Located at Primera Angostura, on the southern shore of the Strait of Magellan, it provides evidence of stratigraphic deposits that were subject to archaeological excavation...
Evidences from sites Pampa El Muerto 3 (PM-3), Pampa El Muerto 8
(PM-8) and Tangani 1 (TAN-1) allow reaffirming that rock art found at
the foothills of northern Chile is synchronic with a late colonization of
this zone, 7000 BP. Its occupation by hunter-gatherers was intensified
towards the end of the Archaic (ca. 6000-3700 years BP), continued
unt...
Evidences from sites Pampa El Muerto 3 (PM-3), Pampa El Muerto 8 (PM-8) and Tangani 1 (TAN-1) allow reaffirming that rock art found at the foothills of northern Chile is synchronic with a late colonization of this zone, 7000 BP. Its occupation by hunter-gatherers was intensified towards the end of the Archaic (ca. 6000-3700 years BP), continued unt...
Tierra del Fuego represents the southernmost limit of human settlement in the Americas. While people may have started to arrive there around 10 500 BP, when it was still connected to the mainland, the main wave of occupation occurred 5000 years later, by which time it had become an island. The co-existence in the area of maritime huntergatherers (i...
The discovery, excavation and analysis of a burial in Cabo Nose, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, is presented. The burial was deposited in a shell midden composed mostly of mussels and Nacella sp., as well as some fish, birds and mammal bones (sea lion and guanaco). The remains corresponded to a young adult male dated to BP 980+/-40 (Late Holocene). The s...
The discovery, excavation and analysis of a burial in Cabo Nose, Tierra del Fuego, Chile, is presented. The burial was deposited in a shell midden composed mostly of mussels and Nacella sp., as well as some fish, birds and mammal bones (sea lion and guanaco). The remains corresponded to a young adult male dated to BP 980+/-40 (Late Holocene). The s...
A partir de un análisis zooarqueológico se discute la posibilidad de detectar diferencias en las opciones dietarias de dos segmentos de la población, casados y solteros, del asentamiento minero histórico de Capote durante la primera mitad del s. XX. En base a la frecuencia de partes esqueletarias de taxones principalmente domésticos, así corno a la...
Based on zooarchaeological analyses, we discuss the possibility of detecting differences in the dietary choices of two population segments, singles and married, at the mining settlement of Capote during the first half of XX Century. Keeping in mind the frequency of skeletal parts of domestic taxa, and their diversity, it is demonstrated that the ma...
The first results of a research focused on the evolution of human terrestrial colonization in Tierra del Fuego during the Holocene are presented. Emphasis is given to moments before 2000 BP, focusing on the integration of a new methodological strategy to approach the detection of archaeological sites for this period.
This paper presents the excavation findings at the Marazzi 2 site (Bahía Inútil, Tierra del
Fuego). The characteristics of the settlement, its chronological context, and the lithic
and archaeofaunistic evidence are submitted. Finally, the adscription of the cultural
deposits is discussed as well as the different occupations represented at the site.
The first results of a research focused on the evolution of human terrestrial colonization in Tierra del Fuego during the Holocene are presented. Emphasis is given to moments before 2000 BP, focusing on the integration of a new methodological strategy to approach the detection of archaeological sites for this period.
Se da cuenta del contexto de un sitio arqueológico de especiales características, por hallarse inmerso en un antiguo turbal y por su datación de ca. 4.000 años AR Los análisis liticos y arqueofaunisticos del sitio Myren 2 apoyan la idea de que se trata de un sitio de difícil adscripción funcional, pero muy interesante por la información que entrega...
The context of an archaeological site with special characteristics, because it is immerse in a peat bog and for its dated age of ca. 4.000 BP, is described. The lithic and archaeofaunistic analysis of Myren 2 site support the idea that it is hard to ascribe functionally, thought it contains interesting information and an outstanding character for T...
