La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visible... more La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visibles” una serie de materialidades, agentes, prácticas y/o procesos sociales difíciles de identificar o poco investigados desde la documentación escrita, contribuyendo a la investigación histórica en búsqueda de una comprensión integral del ciclo salitrero en el actual norte de Chile. El renovado interés que ha despertado la arqueología salitrera en la actual región de Antofagasta en estos últimos 20 años se origina en estudios de impacto ambiental en el cantón El Toco que abrieron importantes líneas de investigación sobre el patrón de asentamiento en los cantones salitreros y lograron identificar las complejas y dinámicas prácticas sociales ocurridas en los márgenes de las oficinas salitreras y los nodos productivos. En el presente trabajo nos proponemos sintetizar la información generada a partir de la arqueología de impacto ambiental en la Comuna de María Elena, actualizando y complementando la información arqueológica disponible sobre la arqueología del salitre en el cantón El Toco con el objeto de aportar a comprender los cantones salitreros del actual norte de Chile como fenómenos complejos, dinámicos y diversos.
21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2023
The Chilean social uprising of October 2019 led to intense, massive protests against the abuses p... more The Chilean social uprising of October 2019 led to intense, massive protests against the abuses people experienced under the modern neoliberal system. Several everyday artifacts and technologies became part of the protests. Santiago was constantly transformed at a vertiginous rate by ephemeral events that left low-permanence material traces. Part of the graffiti, flags, sculptures, and clothing alluded to Pre-Hispanic populations bearing witness to an apparent transversal solidarity to denounce the temporal depth of abuses against Indigenous peoples that continue to exist. Drawing on this social and political contingency, I identify some traits that contribute to the long-term Pre-Columbian art/archaeology debate explored in this special issue.
We present the available background information for the site known as «pueblo de indios de Beter»... more We present the available background information for the site known as «pueblo de indios de Beter», located in the ayllu of Beter, 7 km south of San Pedro de Atacama. The chronological and functional hypotheses that have been given for this site depart from field visual observations, and they cover an historical span of three centuries. We evaluate those suggestions in the light of documentary sources known for that period and we sketch a plan for a systematic and interdisciplinary study of the settlement. El «Pueblo de Indios» de Beter The «pueblo de indios» of Beter Flora Vilches y Cecilia Sanhueza * Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueologicas y Museo R.P. G. Le Paige, S.J. Universidad Catolica del Norte, Casilla 17, Correo San Pedro de Atacama, II Region, Chile. Email: fvilches@ucn.cl, msanhueza@ucn.cl I. Introduccion La cuenca del Salar de Atacama presenta evidencias de ocupacion humana desde los 10.800 anos A.P. Sin embargo, el poblamiento de los oasis de San Pedro de Atacama es ...
Journal of the History of Collections, Nov 21, 2017
Nineteenth-century fascination for the exhibition of mummies from around the world promoted the t... more Nineteenth-century fascination for the exhibition of mummies from around the world promoted the trafficking of cultural objects from remote places including, as reviewed here, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. While well-funded and organized expeditions travelled the world seeking this material, independent sailors and traders also returned to Europe and beyond with items of exotica for sale. The Macleay Museum, at the University of Sydney, has the well-preserved remains of a human female in its collection, with no record of its provenance. The remains may correspond to two Peruvian mummies brought to Australia by Captain George Duniam in 1851. Besides mummies, his worldwide enterprises included the trafficking of slaves from Polynesia to the coast of South America, and camelids out of Peru – practices still current in the twenty-first century.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Nov 22, 2017
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous Atacameño society transited from an agro-pa... more Towards the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous Atacameño society transited from an agro-pastoralist to a more diversified capitalist-based economy due to a growing mining industry in northern Chile. The puna herders engaged in the new capitalist order as wage laborers in sulfur mines and llareta (Azorella compacta) exploitation companies. In this article we show how indigenous knowledge acted as cultural capital that enabled the herders to work as laborers. This operation led to horizontal treatment among the different agents in the taskscape that those “herder-laborers” inhabited, including those incorporated by industrial capitalism.
La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visible... more La arqueología del salitre desarrollada en los últimos 15 años ha contribuido a “hacer visibles” una serie de materialidades, agentes, prácticas y/o procesos sociales difíciles de identificar o poco investigados desde la documentación escrita, contribuyendo a la investigación histórica en búsqueda de una comprensión integral del ciclo salitrero en el actual norte de Chile. El renovado interés que ha despertado la arqueología salitrera en la actual región de Antofagasta en estos últimos 20 años se origina en estudios de impacto ambiental en el cantón El Toco que abrieron importantes líneas de investigación sobre el patrón de asentamiento en los cantones salitreros y lograron identificar las complejas y dinámicas prácticas sociales ocurridas en los márgenes de las oficinas salitreras y los nodos productivos. En el presente trabajo nos proponemos sintetizar la información generada a partir de la arqueología de impacto ambiental en la Comuna de María Elena, actualizando y complementando la información arqueológica disponible sobre la arqueología del salitre en el cantón El Toco con el objeto de aportar a comprender los cantones salitreros del actual norte de Chile como fenómenos complejos, dinámicos y diversos.
21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual, 2023
The Chilean social uprising of October 2019 led to intense, massive protests against the abuses p... more The Chilean social uprising of October 2019 led to intense, massive protests against the abuses people experienced under the modern neoliberal system. Several everyday artifacts and technologies became part of the protests. Santiago was constantly transformed at a vertiginous rate by ephemeral events that left low-permanence material traces. Part of the graffiti, flags, sculptures, and clothing alluded to Pre-Hispanic populations bearing witness to an apparent transversal solidarity to denounce the temporal depth of abuses against Indigenous peoples that continue to exist. Drawing on this social and political contingency, I identify some traits that contribute to the long-term Pre-Columbian art/archaeology debate explored in this special issue.
We present the available background information for the site known as «pueblo de indios de Beter»... more We present the available background information for the site known as «pueblo de indios de Beter», located in the ayllu of Beter, 7 km south of San Pedro de Atacama. The chronological and functional hypotheses that have been given for this site depart from field visual observations, and they cover an historical span of three centuries. We evaluate those suggestions in the light of documentary sources known for that period and we sketch a plan for a systematic and interdisciplinary study of the settlement. El «Pueblo de Indios» de Beter The «pueblo de indios» of Beter Flora Vilches y Cecilia Sanhueza * Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueologicas y Museo R.P. G. Le Paige, S.J. Universidad Catolica del Norte, Casilla 17, Correo San Pedro de Atacama, II Region, Chile. Email: fvilches@ucn.cl, msanhueza@ucn.cl I. Introduccion La cuenca del Salar de Atacama presenta evidencias de ocupacion humana desde los 10.800 anos A.P. Sin embargo, el poblamiento de los oasis de San Pedro de Atacama es ...
Journal of the History of Collections, Nov 21, 2017
Nineteenth-century fascination for the exhibition of mummies from around the world promoted the t... more Nineteenth-century fascination for the exhibition of mummies from around the world promoted the trafficking of cultural objects from remote places including, as reviewed here, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. While well-funded and organized expeditions travelled the world seeking this material, independent sailors and traders also returned to Europe and beyond with items of exotica for sale. The Macleay Museum, at the University of Sydney, has the well-preserved remains of a human female in its collection, with no record of its provenance. The remains may correspond to two Peruvian mummies brought to Australia by Captain George Duniam in 1851. Besides mummies, his worldwide enterprises included the trafficking of slaves from Polynesia to the coast of South America, and camelids out of Peru – practices still current in the twenty-first century.
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, Nov 22, 2017
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous Atacameño society transited from an agro-pa... more Towards the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous Atacameño society transited from an agro-pastoralist to a more diversified capitalist-based economy due to a growing mining industry in northern Chile. The puna herders engaged in the new capitalist order as wage laborers in sulfur mines and llareta (Azorella compacta) exploitation companies. In this article we show how indigenous knowledge acted as cultural capital that enabled the herders to work as laborers. This operation led to horizontal treatment among the different agents in the taskscape that those “herder-laborers” inhabited, including those incorporated by industrial capitalism.
A partir de un dato que recibió casi de casualidad, el artista chileno Francisco Medina Donoso se... more A partir de un dato que recibió casi de casualidad, el artista chileno Francisco Medina Donoso se propuso encontrar los restos del edificio del Palacio de La Moneda, bombardeado el 11 de septiembre de 1973. Esa búsqueda, que encaró junto a un equipo de arqueólogos y artistas, lo llevaría a preguntarse por las formas y límites de la memoria en Chile.
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