Transformative Architectures is an archaeological exploration of the sociality of architectural p... more Transformative Architectures is an archaeological exploration of the sociality of architectural practices in a pre-Hispanic landscape. Investigating how built environments were assembled in the Guatacondo Valley, a ravine located in what some call the "hyper-arid core" of the Atacama Desert, between the fifth century BCE and the second century CE, I reconsider the centrality of the agricultural village in the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. Rather than approaching this landscape as a finalized object, I follow a multi-scalar approach that treats buildings—from mud walls to landscapes, from face-to-face interactions to intergenerational relations—as emergent assemblages of matter and actions, brought together through the entanglement of multiple materials, beings, and practices. In so doing, the project recuperates material histories to provide a narrative about this landscape that works against oversimplified characterizations of this territory as inhospitable, ancient, empty, and unruly. First, the dissertation connects these characterizations with the scientific, colonial, and capitalist appropriation of the Atacama, whose logics of progress and linear temporalities have shaped the kind of history writing that archaeology produces. Focusing on landscapes and building practices in the Guatacondo Valley, the dissertation then tracks and documents material traces of human occupations, posing traditional objects of archaeological inquiries as social projects rather than historical inevitabilities. Mapping connections between builders and buildings, Transformative Architectures provides insights into the ways in which technological histories accrue in the material. It proposes an alternate way of studying the agricultural village through a detailed exploration of situated architectural projects, making visible the long, messy processes of settlement formation that evolutionary and economic narratives of social complexity tend to elide. Disentangling the process of agriculturalization from village f [...]
El sitio Iluga Túmulos en la región de Tarapacá está constituido por una variedad de infraestruct... more El sitio Iluga Túmulos en la región de Tarapacá está constituido por una variedad de infraestructura inmueble, principalmente montículos artificiales, estructuras agrícolas, plazas, monolitos y recintos habitacionales, asociados a grandes volúmenes de material cultural. La materialidad demuestra una ocupación persistente que se extiende temporalmente desde el período Formativo hasta el Colonial. En este artículo, nos centramos en la descripción y caracterización de sus arquitecturas prehispánicas, ligadas a distintas tradiciones constructivas descritas para la Pampa del Tamarugal y del Norte Grande de Chile, pero presentando configuraciones hasta ahora no detectadas en el área. De acuerdo con esto, buscamos contribuir al conocimiento de las tradiciones arquitectónicas desde Iluga Túmulos, considerándolo como un espacio en donde convergen diversos modos de construir, que reflejan de manera sintética aspectos de la compleja historia social, económica y tecnológica de las poblaciones p...
According to sixteenth and seventeenth century chroniclers, the indigenous societies of Tarapacá ... more According to sixteenth and seventeenth century chroniclers, the indigenous societies of Tarapacá were equipped with light architecture, or with structures exhibiting the civilizing influence of settlers arriving from the Altiplano during the Early Formative Period (900 B.C.A.D. 200; Núñez 1971; Núñez and Moragas 1977). This viewpoint promotes the interpretation that the coastal groups were conservative and materially precarious, and had been passively integrated into the economic and cultural changes promulgated from interior farming and herding zones (Sanhueza 1985). In contrast, the study summarized here emphasizes the social complexity of Tarapacá’s coastal desert (running from approximately 19E55' to 21E43' south) by analyzing the architecture of sites located between the mouths of the Camiña and Loa Rivers, a north-south stretch of about 208 kilometers. In FONDECYT Project 1030923, “The Pica-Tarapacá Complex: Proposals for an Archaeology of the Societies of the South-Ce...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Intitute, 2022
Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, b... more Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, but also of material goods, imaginaries, experiences, flows of information, and knowledge. In this article, we examine different forms of movement in the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (c. 2500-1500 cal BP), such as pedestrian travels, llama caravans, and navigation on sea lion-skin vessels along the Pacific, incorporating various material means and encompassing a wide array of
incentives. We present different case studies that challenge monolithic assumptions about mobility in the South-Central Andes, commonly understood through the lens of ecological complementarity and primarily driven by economic exchange. Extending Binford’s classic distinction between residential and logistical mobility as two ideal types of hunter-gatherers’ settlement systems to include groups of early farmers, in combination with the territorial categories of local and extra-local, we interrogate the spatial and temporal scale of these journeys – from daily to seasonal, from short to long distance – and its materialization. In these examples, we approach movement and travel as a way of life, expanding the traditional view of mobility through an exploration of the varied ways in which it was practised and integrated into the social lives of desert dwellers.
The mineral richness of the Atacama Desert permitted the development of a diverse array of mining... more The mineral richness of the Atacama Desert permitted the development of a diverse array of mining activities, including the production of metals, lapidary, and pigments, which developed into significant sociocultural practices for desert dwellers throughout the occupation of the region. El Cóndor mine is an important hematite source located in the middle section of the Loa River, exploited from the Formative Period (ca. AD 300) until Inca times (ca. AD 1500). In contrast to other mining sites of Atacama region, the El Condor mine complex contains specialized infrastructure where different kinds of activities were carried out: extraction pits, processing areas with multiple anvils and grinding tools, and semicircular structures used for domestic activities. Pigment production was initially developed as a small-scale craft that intensified during later periods (ca. AD 1200). It was most extensive following the Inca expansion (ca. AD 1400), as evidenced by wider networks of distribution and consumption, as well as infrastructural changes. El Cóndor mine constitutes a notable example of a large-scale hematite operation that articulated important networks of exchange, and as such provides a case study for evaluating the organization of mining activities during late periods of the pre-Hispanic sequence in the Atacama Desert. We then emphasize that the circulation of pigments constitutes an important social practice and a salient economic activity, fulfilling a political role through the production and reproduction of social relations between different cultural entities that could be compared to similar cases from other regions in the world.
The paper provides an interpretation of architectural traditions and innovations in residential s... more The paper provides an interpretation of architectural traditions and innovations in residential settlements on the coast, pampa, and highlands of Tarapacá. The distribution and variability of sites show the development of a residential pattern associated with a supra-domestic and inter-community sociopolitical structure in a desert environment. There, beginning around the eleventh century B.C., and continuing for two millennia, three phases can be distinguished. To understand the process of village formation, the authors use chronological data from a network of small-scale nucleated settlements and dispersed camps. The dynamics of segmentation (fission) and conglomeration (fusion) reveal different degrees of competition among extended pluriparental family units and multigenerational lineages within the region.
Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena
Se interpretan indicadores de conservadurismo e innovación arquitectónica para asentamientos resi... more Se interpretan indicadores de conservadurismo e innovación arquitectónica para asentamientos residenciales en ámbitos desérticos de la costa, pampa y precordillera de Tarapacá. La distribución y variabilidad de los sitios expresa - en un lapso de dos milenios, a partir del siglo XI a.C.-, el desarrollo de un patrón de asentamiento tendiente a una organización sociopolítica supra doméstica e inter comunitaria donde se distinguen tres etapas o épocas. Para entender el proceso aldeano se utilizan datos cronológicos de una red de asentamientos aglutinados de baja envergadura y extensos campamentos dispersos, usualmente subvalorados como puntos de tránsito hacia zonas nucleares de mayor complejidad social y densidad demográfica. Cambios históricos decisivos detectados en la estructura de parentesco son planteados en referencia a formatos residenciales inéditos (conglomerados y barrios aglutinados) cuyo comportamiento de segmentación (fisión) y aglutinamiento (fusión), revelan grados de competencia entre familias extensas pluriparentales y linajes hereditarios o multigeneracionales dentro de la región.
This volume contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Earl Henry Lubens... more This volume contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Earl Henry Lubensky (March 31, 1921 - May 1, 2009)" by Deborah M. Pearsall; "Juan (Hans) Santiago Rene Schobinger (February 18, 1928 - July 11, 2009)" by Constanza Ceruti; "A Changing Society? Craft Specialization and Complementarity Systems during the Formative Period in the Cochabamba Valley, Bolivia" by Olga U. Gabelmann; "Moche Architectural Vessels: Small Structures Big Implications" by Juliet Wiersema; "The Well and the Huaca: Ceremony, Chronology, and Culture Change at Huaca Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, Peru" by Jeffrey Quilter, Regulo Franco J., Cesar Galvez M., William Doonan, Catherine Gaither, Victor F. Vasquez S., Teresa E. Rosales T., Jaime Jimenez S., Hal Starratt, and Michele L. Koons; "Adobe Bricks and Labor Organization on the North Coast of Peru" by Howard I. Tsai; "A Bioarchaeological Study of Coca Use and Coca Leaf Chewing at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru" by Melissa S. Murphy and Maria Fernanda Boza; "The Destruction of the Yurac Rumi Shrine (Vilcabamba, Cusco Department)" by Brian S. Bauer, Miriam Dayde Araoz Silva, and George S. Burr; "Inca Storage and Accounting Facilities at Pachacamac" by Peter Eeckhout; "Regional Associations and a Ceramic Assemblage from the Fourteenth Century Llanos de Mojos" by John H. Walker; "Recent Excavations at the Late Intermediate Period Village of Yanaorco in the Cajamarca Highlands" by Jason L. Toohy; "A Colonial Human Burial Excavated in 1965 between Portals 5 and 6 at Huanuco Pampa" by Monica Barnes, Catherine Gaither, Robert A. Benfer, Jr., and Daniel Shea; "Mitomarca: A Possible Fortification in the Upper Huallaga Basin" by Yuichi Matsumoto, Jason S. Nesbitt, and Denesy Palacio J.; "An Initial Period Domestic Occupation at Huaca Cortada, Caballo Muerto Complex" by Jason S. Nesbitt; "Marine Exploitation and Paleoenvironment as Viewed through Molluscan Resources at the Early Horizon Center of Huambacho, Nepena Valley, Coastal Ancash" by David Chicoine and Carol Rojas; "Architecture in the Coastal Desert" by Simon Urbina A., Leonor Adan A., and Estefania Vidal M.; "La Bolsa 1 Site, Tafi Valley, Tucuman Province: Household Mortuary Practices in a South Andean Village (First Millennium A.D.)" by Julian Salazar.
This volume of Andean Past contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Ed... more This volume of Andean Past contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Editor's Preface" by Monica Barnes; "Donald Frederick Sola" by Monica Barnes; Paulina Mercedes Ledergerber-Crespo" by A. Jorge Arellano-Lopez; "Death Notices (Robert Ascher, Bernd Lambert, Daniel W. Gade, and George Bankes) by Monica Barnes and Bill Sillar; "Obsidian Procurement and Cosmopolitanism at the Middle Horizon Settlement of Conchopata, Peru" by Richard L. Burger, Catherine M. Bencic, and Michael D. Glascock; "Characteristics and Significance of Tapia Walls and the Mochica Presence at Santa Rosa de Pucala in the Mid-Lambayeque Valley" by Edgar Bracamonte; "Health at the Edge of the Wari Empire: An Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Hatun Cotuyoc, Huaro, Peru" by Sara L. Juengst and Maeve Skidmore; "Demographic Analysis of a Looted Late Intermediate Period Tomb, Chincha Valley, Peru" by Camille Weinberg, Benjamin T. Nigra, Maria Cecilia Lozada, Charles Stanish, Henry Tantalean, Jacob Bongers, and Terrah Jones; "Macrobotanical Remains from the 2009 Season at Caylan: Preliminary Insights into Early Horizon Plant Use in the Nepena Valley, North-Central Coast of Peru" by David Chicoine, Beverly Clement, and Kyle Stich; "Obsidian Technology at the Wari Site of Conchopata in Ayacucho, Peru" by Catherine M. Bencic; "Incahuasi, Canete" by Alejandro Chu; "Luis Barreda Murillo's Excavations at Huanuco Pampa, 1965" Monica Barnes; "Early Village Formation in Desert Areas of Tarapaca, Northern Chile (Eleventh Century B.C.--Thirteenth Century A.D.)" by Simon Urbina, Leonor Adan, Constanza Pellegrino, and Estefania Vidal; and "Don Mateo-El Cerro, a Newly Rediscovered Late Period Settlement in Yocavil (Catamarca, Argentina) by Alina Alvarez Larrain.
Ballester, B., E. Calás, C. Pelegrino, E. Vidal y P. Aguilera 2017 La vida en comunidad de los ca... more Ballester, B., E. Calás, C. Pelegrino, E. Vidal y P. Aguilera 2017 La vida en comunidad de los cazadores-pescadores marinos del desierto de Atacama (4000-2000 cal. a.C.). 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, B. Ballester y N. Fuenzalida, pp. 183-197. CIIR & SCHA, Santiago.
Transformative Architectures is an archaeological exploration of the sociality of architectural p... more Transformative Architectures is an archaeological exploration of the sociality of architectural practices in a pre-Hispanic landscape. Investigating how built environments were assembled in the Guatacondo Valley, a ravine located in what some call the "hyper-arid core" of the Atacama Desert, between the fifth century BCE and the second century CE, I reconsider the centrality of the agricultural village in the transition from hunting and gathering to farming. Rather than approaching this landscape as a finalized object, I follow a multi-scalar approach that treats buildings—from mud walls to landscapes, from face-to-face interactions to intergenerational relations—as emergent assemblages of matter and actions, brought together through the entanglement of multiple materials, beings, and practices. In so doing, the project recuperates material histories to provide a narrative about this landscape that works against oversimplified characterizations of this territory as inhospitable, ancient, empty, and unruly. First, the dissertation connects these characterizations with the scientific, colonial, and capitalist appropriation of the Atacama, whose logics of progress and linear temporalities have shaped the kind of history writing that archaeology produces. Focusing on landscapes and building practices in the Guatacondo Valley, the dissertation then tracks and documents material traces of human occupations, posing traditional objects of archaeological inquiries as social projects rather than historical inevitabilities. Mapping connections between builders and buildings, Transformative Architectures provides insights into the ways in which technological histories accrue in the material. It proposes an alternate way of studying the agricultural village through a detailed exploration of situated architectural projects, making visible the long, messy processes of settlement formation that evolutionary and economic narratives of social complexity tend to elide. Disentangling the process of agriculturalization from village f [...]
El sitio Iluga Túmulos en la región de Tarapacá está constituido por una variedad de infraestruct... more El sitio Iluga Túmulos en la región de Tarapacá está constituido por una variedad de infraestructura inmueble, principalmente montículos artificiales, estructuras agrícolas, plazas, monolitos y recintos habitacionales, asociados a grandes volúmenes de material cultural. La materialidad demuestra una ocupación persistente que se extiende temporalmente desde el período Formativo hasta el Colonial. En este artículo, nos centramos en la descripción y caracterización de sus arquitecturas prehispánicas, ligadas a distintas tradiciones constructivas descritas para la Pampa del Tamarugal y del Norte Grande de Chile, pero presentando configuraciones hasta ahora no detectadas en el área. De acuerdo con esto, buscamos contribuir al conocimiento de las tradiciones arquitectónicas desde Iluga Túmulos, considerándolo como un espacio en donde convergen diversos modos de construir, que reflejan de manera sintética aspectos de la compleja historia social, económica y tecnológica de las poblaciones p...
According to sixteenth and seventeenth century chroniclers, the indigenous societies of Tarapacá ... more According to sixteenth and seventeenth century chroniclers, the indigenous societies of Tarapacá were equipped with light architecture, or with structures exhibiting the civilizing influence of settlers arriving from the Altiplano during the Early Formative Period (900 B.C.A.D. 200; Núñez 1971; Núñez and Moragas 1977). This viewpoint promotes the interpretation that the coastal groups were conservative and materially precarious, and had been passively integrated into the economic and cultural changes promulgated from interior farming and herding zones (Sanhueza 1985). In contrast, the study summarized here emphasizes the social complexity of Tarapacá’s coastal desert (running from approximately 19E55' to 21E43' south) by analyzing the architecture of sites located between the mouths of the Camiña and Loa Rivers, a north-south stretch of about 208 kilometers. In FONDECYT Project 1030923, “The Pica-Tarapacá Complex: Proposals for an Archaeology of the Societies of the South-Ce...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Intitute, 2022
Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, b... more Social worlds are constituted by movement. Mobility entails the circulation not only of people, but also of material goods, imaginaries, experiences, flows of information, and knowledge. In this article, we examine different forms of movement in the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (c. 2500-1500 cal BP), such as pedestrian travels, llama caravans, and navigation on sea lion-skin vessels along the Pacific, incorporating various material means and encompassing a wide array of
incentives. We present different case studies that challenge monolithic assumptions about mobility in the South-Central Andes, commonly understood through the lens of ecological complementarity and primarily driven by economic exchange. Extending Binford’s classic distinction between residential and logistical mobility as two ideal types of hunter-gatherers’ settlement systems to include groups of early farmers, in combination with the territorial categories of local and extra-local, we interrogate the spatial and temporal scale of these journeys – from daily to seasonal, from short to long distance – and its materialization. In these examples, we approach movement and travel as a way of life, expanding the traditional view of mobility through an exploration of the varied ways in which it was practised and integrated into the social lives of desert dwellers.
The mineral richness of the Atacama Desert permitted the development of a diverse array of mining... more The mineral richness of the Atacama Desert permitted the development of a diverse array of mining activities, including the production of metals, lapidary, and pigments, which developed into significant sociocultural practices for desert dwellers throughout the occupation of the region. El Cóndor mine is an important hematite source located in the middle section of the Loa River, exploited from the Formative Period (ca. AD 300) until Inca times (ca. AD 1500). In contrast to other mining sites of Atacama region, the El Condor mine complex contains specialized infrastructure where different kinds of activities were carried out: extraction pits, processing areas with multiple anvils and grinding tools, and semicircular structures used for domestic activities. Pigment production was initially developed as a small-scale craft that intensified during later periods (ca. AD 1200). It was most extensive following the Inca expansion (ca. AD 1400), as evidenced by wider networks of distribution and consumption, as well as infrastructural changes. El Cóndor mine constitutes a notable example of a large-scale hematite operation that articulated important networks of exchange, and as such provides a case study for evaluating the organization of mining activities during late periods of the pre-Hispanic sequence in the Atacama Desert. We then emphasize that the circulation of pigments constitutes an important social practice and a salient economic activity, fulfilling a political role through the production and reproduction of social relations between different cultural entities that could be compared to similar cases from other regions in the world.
The paper provides an interpretation of architectural traditions and innovations in residential s... more The paper provides an interpretation of architectural traditions and innovations in residential settlements on the coast, pampa, and highlands of Tarapacá. The distribution and variability of sites show the development of a residential pattern associated with a supra-domestic and inter-community sociopolitical structure in a desert environment. There, beginning around the eleventh century B.C., and continuing for two millennia, three phases can be distinguished. To understand the process of village formation, the authors use chronological data from a network of small-scale nucleated settlements and dispersed camps. The dynamics of segmentation (fission) and conglomeration (fusion) reveal different degrees of competition among extended pluriparental family units and multigenerational lineages within the region.
Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena
Se interpretan indicadores de conservadurismo e innovación arquitectónica para asentamientos resi... more Se interpretan indicadores de conservadurismo e innovación arquitectónica para asentamientos residenciales en ámbitos desérticos de la costa, pampa y precordillera de Tarapacá. La distribución y variabilidad de los sitios expresa - en un lapso de dos milenios, a partir del siglo XI a.C.-, el desarrollo de un patrón de asentamiento tendiente a una organización sociopolítica supra doméstica e inter comunitaria donde se distinguen tres etapas o épocas. Para entender el proceso aldeano se utilizan datos cronológicos de una red de asentamientos aglutinados de baja envergadura y extensos campamentos dispersos, usualmente subvalorados como puntos de tránsito hacia zonas nucleares de mayor complejidad social y densidad demográfica. Cambios históricos decisivos detectados en la estructura de parentesco son planteados en referencia a formatos residenciales inéditos (conglomerados y barrios aglutinados) cuyo comportamiento de segmentación (fisión) y aglutinamiento (fusión), revelan grados de competencia entre familias extensas pluriparentales y linajes hereditarios o multigeneracionales dentro de la región.
This volume contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Earl Henry Lubens... more This volume contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Earl Henry Lubensky (March 31, 1921 - May 1, 2009)" by Deborah M. Pearsall; "Juan (Hans) Santiago Rene Schobinger (February 18, 1928 - July 11, 2009)" by Constanza Ceruti; "A Changing Society? Craft Specialization and Complementarity Systems during the Formative Period in the Cochabamba Valley, Bolivia" by Olga U. Gabelmann; "Moche Architectural Vessels: Small Structures Big Implications" by Juliet Wiersema; "The Well and the Huaca: Ceremony, Chronology, and Culture Change at Huaca Cao Viejo, Chicama Valley, Peru" by Jeffrey Quilter, Regulo Franco J., Cesar Galvez M., William Doonan, Catherine Gaither, Victor F. Vasquez S., Teresa E. Rosales T., Jaime Jimenez S., Hal Starratt, and Michele L. Koons; "Adobe Bricks and Labor Organization on the North Coast of Peru" by Howard I. Tsai; "A Bioarchaeological Study of Coca Use and Coca Leaf Chewing at Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru" by Melissa S. Murphy and Maria Fernanda Boza; "The Destruction of the Yurac Rumi Shrine (Vilcabamba, Cusco Department)" by Brian S. Bauer, Miriam Dayde Araoz Silva, and George S. Burr; "Inca Storage and Accounting Facilities at Pachacamac" by Peter Eeckhout; "Regional Associations and a Ceramic Assemblage from the Fourteenth Century Llanos de Mojos" by John H. Walker; "Recent Excavations at the Late Intermediate Period Village of Yanaorco in the Cajamarca Highlands" by Jason L. Toohy; "A Colonial Human Burial Excavated in 1965 between Portals 5 and 6 at Huanuco Pampa" by Monica Barnes, Catherine Gaither, Robert A. Benfer, Jr., and Daniel Shea; "Mitomarca: A Possible Fortification in the Upper Huallaga Basin" by Yuichi Matsumoto, Jason S. Nesbitt, and Denesy Palacio J.; "An Initial Period Domestic Occupation at Huaca Cortada, Caballo Muerto Complex" by Jason S. Nesbitt; "Marine Exploitation and Paleoenvironment as Viewed through Molluscan Resources at the Early Horizon Center of Huambacho, Nepena Valley, Coastal Ancash" by David Chicoine and Carol Rojas; "Architecture in the Coastal Desert" by Simon Urbina A., Leonor Adan A., and Estefania Vidal M.; "La Bolsa 1 Site, Tafi Valley, Tucuman Province: Household Mortuary Practices in a South Andean Village (First Millennium A.D.)" by Julian Salazar.
This volume of Andean Past contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Ed... more This volume of Andean Past contains the following articles, research reports, and obituaries: "Editor's Preface" by Monica Barnes; "Donald Frederick Sola" by Monica Barnes; Paulina Mercedes Ledergerber-Crespo" by A. Jorge Arellano-Lopez; "Death Notices (Robert Ascher, Bernd Lambert, Daniel W. Gade, and George Bankes) by Monica Barnes and Bill Sillar; "Obsidian Procurement and Cosmopolitanism at the Middle Horizon Settlement of Conchopata, Peru" by Richard L. Burger, Catherine M. Bencic, and Michael D. Glascock; "Characteristics and Significance of Tapia Walls and the Mochica Presence at Santa Rosa de Pucala in the Mid-Lambayeque Valley" by Edgar Bracamonte; "Health at the Edge of the Wari Empire: An Analysis of Skeletal Remains from Hatun Cotuyoc, Huaro, Peru" by Sara L. Juengst and Maeve Skidmore; "Demographic Analysis of a Looted Late Intermediate Period Tomb, Chincha Valley, Peru" by Camille Weinberg, Benjamin T. Nigra, Maria Cecilia Lozada, Charles Stanish, Henry Tantalean, Jacob Bongers, and Terrah Jones; "Macrobotanical Remains from the 2009 Season at Caylan: Preliminary Insights into Early Horizon Plant Use in the Nepena Valley, North-Central Coast of Peru" by David Chicoine, Beverly Clement, and Kyle Stich; "Obsidian Technology at the Wari Site of Conchopata in Ayacucho, Peru" by Catherine M. Bencic; "Incahuasi, Canete" by Alejandro Chu; "Luis Barreda Murillo's Excavations at Huanuco Pampa, 1965" Monica Barnes; "Early Village Formation in Desert Areas of Tarapaca, Northern Chile (Eleventh Century B.C.--Thirteenth Century A.D.)" by Simon Urbina, Leonor Adan, Constanza Pellegrino, and Estefania Vidal; and "Don Mateo-El Cerro, a Newly Rediscovered Late Period Settlement in Yocavil (Catamarca, Argentina) by Alina Alvarez Larrain.
Ballester, B., E. Calás, C. Pelegrino, E. Vidal y P. Aguilera 2017 La vida en comunidad de los ca... more Ballester, B., E. Calás, C. Pelegrino, E. Vidal y P. Aguilera 2017 La vida en comunidad de los cazadores-pescadores marinos del desierto de Atacama (4000-2000 cal. a.C.). 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, B. Ballester y N. Fuenzalida, pp. 183-197. CIIR & SCHA, Santiago.
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incentives. We present different case studies that challenge monolithic assumptions about mobility in the South-Central Andes, commonly understood through the lens of ecological complementarity and primarily driven by economic exchange. Extending Binford’s classic distinction between residential and logistical mobility as two ideal types of hunter-gatherers’ settlement systems to include groups of early farmers, in combination with the territorial categories of local and extra-local, we interrogate the spatial and temporal scale of these journeys – from daily to seasonal, from short to long distance – and its materialization. In these examples, we approach movement and travel as a way of life, expanding the traditional view of mobility through an exploration of the varied ways in which it was practised and integrated into the social lives of desert dwellers.
incentives. We present different case studies that challenge monolithic assumptions about mobility in the South-Central Andes, commonly understood through the lens of ecological complementarity and primarily driven by economic exchange. Extending Binford’s classic distinction between residential and logistical mobility as two ideal types of hunter-gatherers’ settlement systems to include groups of early farmers, in combination with the territorial categories of local and extra-local, we interrogate the spatial and temporal scale of these journeys – from daily to seasonal, from short to long distance – and its materialization. In these examples, we approach movement and travel as a way of life, expanding the traditional view of mobility through an exploration of the varied ways in which it was practised and integrated into the social lives of desert dwellers.