Gonzalo Pimentel
Gonzalo Pimentel G. is archaeologist and graduate in Social Anthropology, Doctor in Anthropology. Specialist in internodal archeology, rock art and late prehispanic societies of the Atacama Desert. President of the Atacama Desert Foundation, Chile.
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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.
This issue of Estudios Atacameños presents the results of the symposium referred to in the title of this Introduction. The symposium took place on October 8, 2015 in the city of Concepción during the XX National Conference of Chilean Archaeology, and was organized by the Universidad de Concepción Anthropology Program and the Chilean Archaeology Society. On that occasion, 16 papers were presented by more than 30 researchers from Chile, Argentina and the United States. Axel Nielsen provided comments at the end of the symposium.
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.
This issue of Estudios Atacameños presents the results of the symposium referred to in the title of this Introduction. The symposium took place on October 8, 2015 in the city of Concepción during the XX National Conference of Chilean Archaeology, and was organized by the Universidad de Concepción Anthropology Program and the Chilean Archaeology Society. On that occasion, 16 papers were presented by more than 30 researchers from Chile, Argentina and the United States. Axel Nielsen provided comments at the end of the symposium.