The Long-Term Trajectory of Tom Dalton Dillehay in Chile

Summary

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

Tom Dillehay appeared publicly in Chile in October 1976 during the VII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena. Since then more than 16,769 days have passed, a figure that exceeds the archaeological depth, in thousands of calibrated years, that Tom has imprinted on the human history of the Andes, in western South America, “Where the Land Meets the Sea,” as the title of one of his recent book states, in which together with a large team of specialists from several countries, he recounts “14,000 Years of Human History on the Northern Coast of Peru.” In this essay, we present some of the salient aspects of his archaeological, ethnoarchaeological, ethnographic, and historical research career in Chile, based on a long conversation we had with Tom at the Laboratory of Archaeology and Paleoenvironment of the High Research Institute of the University of Tarapacá, in Arica, Chile, in 2015.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Abstract Id(s): 37336.0