This study brings new empirical evidence, resulting from the excavation of four transitory camp sites and two human burials associated with geoglyphs, and found along a prehispanic caravan path of 150 km long, connecting the Pica oasis with the Pacific coastal ocean in the Atacama desert in northern Chile. Since the majority of these sites are found in resourceless desertic areas and are associated to contexts such as llama coprolites and corn leaves, we argue that these sites were direct components of caravan trafficking. This route was linked to an intensive long distance macro-regional traffic associated with the circulations of economic and sumptuary goods from diverse origins, including the selva, altiplano, oasis, pampa and coast. Rad...
El surgimiento y proliferación de arquitectura doméstica y funeraria en la costa desértica de Atacam...
International audience“We present the methodology and the first results of a regional study of late ...
International audienceThe study of perforated objects from four archaeological sites on the Atacama ...
The Late Intermediate Period in northern Chile has been strongly influenced by the mobility models o...
International audienceWe present an initial report of recent excavations of a settlement with stone ...
The topic of Prehispanic llama caravan trade has been widely examined in the archaeology of Northern...
La prehistoria del Norte Grande de Chile se ha construido en gran parte gracias a una arqueología cu...
In the northern-most area of Chile, stretching six hundred miles down the coast of South America and...
AbstractFew archeological sites in South America contain uncontroversial evidence for when the first...
Abstract An early archaic settlement is identified in Tiliviche Valley (Northern Chile), at a distan...
International audienceNorthern Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on t...
International audienceThe Dry Puna in extreme northern Chile lies between the Andean region’s tw...
Se presentan los resultados de la prospección pedestre de una rutaque comunicó el Altiplano de Lípez...
In this paper, we present recent data on Early Holocene human occupations from Taltal, in the coast ...
It is proposed that archaeological research in internodal spaces can provide important and non-redun...
El surgimiento y proliferación de arquitectura doméstica y funeraria en la costa desértica de Atacam...
International audience“We present the methodology and the first results of a regional study of late ...
International audienceThe study of perforated objects from four archaeological sites on the Atacama ...
The Late Intermediate Period in northern Chile has been strongly influenced by the mobility models o...
International audienceWe present an initial report of recent excavations of a settlement with stone ...
The topic of Prehispanic llama caravan trade has been widely examined in the archaeology of Northern...
La prehistoria del Norte Grande de Chile se ha construido en gran parte gracias a una arqueología cu...
In the northern-most area of Chile, stretching six hundred miles down the coast of South America and...
AbstractFew archeological sites in South America contain uncontroversial evidence for when the first...
Abstract An early archaic settlement is identified in Tiliviche Valley (Northern Chile), at a distan...
International audienceNorthern Chile’s Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on t...
International audienceThe Dry Puna in extreme northern Chile lies between the Andean region’s tw...
Se presentan los resultados de la prospección pedestre de una rutaque comunicó el Altiplano de Lípez...
In this paper, we present recent data on Early Holocene human occupations from Taltal, in the coast ...
It is proposed that archaeological research in internodal spaces can provide important and non-redun...
El surgimiento y proliferación de arquitectura doméstica y funeraria en la costa desértica de Atacam...
International audience“We present the methodology and the first results of a regional study of late ...
International audienceThe study of perforated objects from four archaeological sites on the Atacama ...