De la Costa a la Cordillera: Long-Term Cultural Developments in Chile

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Through multiple research projects, collaborations, and university appointments, Tom Dillehay impacted anthropological investigations throughout Chile, from the northern coasts of the Atacama desert south to the temperate forests of Patagonia, and the entire length of the Andes. Though multifaceted in approaches, one common theme appears in much of this work: the processes that go into human cultural development at different time periods and stages of sociocultural complexity and the utility of cross-cultural comparison. Here we provide two case studies that illustrate Dillehay’s influence in broader examinations of cultural developments in Chile. From the north coast, the Chinchorro culture, famous for the oldest examples of mummification in the world, exploited marine resources and developed technological and symbolic sophistication over 6,000 years ago. In the south, long-term development in Mapuche cultural practices influenced their defeat of the Spanish in the sixteenth century and maintenance of long-term cultural practices and patterns into the present.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)   •
• Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part I: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay

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Abstract Id(s): 37566.0