International audienceThe archaeology from the Atacama Desert littoral had centered their studies into a reduced animal spectrum, over representing those more traditional, known, and popular, as fishes, camelids and otarides, in detriment of others, with a less bounded but equally significant register. We present a reflection about humans and sea turtles relationships, practically absents from the besti ary of the northern Chile littoral populations, focusing in their interespecies relations, highlighting the diversity of strategies, instances, and mechanism through which this those relations where constructed and acted.La arqueología del litoral del desierto de Atacama ha concentrado sus estudios en un espectro reducido de animales, sobrer...