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LATIN AMERICAN ANTIQUITY
Volume 31, Issue 1, Pages 81-102Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/laq.2019.92
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Andes Centro-Sur; Tarapaca; Formativo; arqueobotanica; zooarqueologia; arqueologia simetrica; South-central Andes; Tarapaca; Formative period; archaeobotany; zooarchaeology; symmetrical archaeology
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In this article, we illustrate the relationships that human societies established with their environment during the Formative period in the Pampa del Tamarugal (3000-1000 BP), Atacama Desert, Chile. We employed a theoretical-methodological perspective that emphasizes the explanatory potential of ecofacts. By mediating between humans and environment, this perspective provides a better understanding of how these societies constructed nature and culture. The purpose is to show that this process was part of a long history of rationalization of the desert, its resources, and the lived experience of the Formative communities that occupied that landscape. Therefore, we propose that this human intervention in Pampa del Tamarugal can be understood not only as an ecological and economic change but also a cosmological one.
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