The Crop Fields of the Ramaditas: A Formative Site in the Atacama Desert

Author(s): Gentaro Miyano; Mario Rivera

Year: 2024

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Water Management in the Andes: Past, Present, and Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ramaditas, a Formative village site dated to around 600 BC, is located in the driest section of the Atacama Desert. Surrounding the architectural structures is a large area of fields that were cultivated by the inhabitants of Ramaditas. Here we present aspects concerning the water system developed at Ramaditas based on an aerial study with drones and 3D digital reconstruction of the landscape, irrigation structures, and agricultural fields, which suggests the development of an efficient water system adapted to local environmental conditions.

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The Crop Fields of the Ramaditas: A Formative Site in the Atacama Desert. Gentaro Miyano, Mario Rivera. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 497670)

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Keywords

General
Andes: Formative • Digital Archaeology: 3D Modeling • Environment and Climate 

Geographic Keywords
South America: Andes

Spatial Coverage

min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 41729.0