Archaeologies of movement (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estefania Vidal Montero. Francisco Gallardo. Benjamín Ballester. Gonzalo Pimentel. José Blanco.

Social spheres are constituted by population movements. Mobility entails not only the circulation of material goods, but of people, collective imaginary, experiences, flows of information, and knowledge. In this paper, we examine multiple types of movements through the Atacama Desert during the Formative Period (ca. 500 BCE—700 CE). Here, mobility required displacements whose variability included pedestrian travels, the movement of large llama caravans, and the use of sea lion-skin rafts to sail...