RISE AND DECLINE OF CHINCHORRO SACRED LANDSCAPES ALONG THE HYPERARID COAST OF THE ATACAMA DESERT

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dc.contributor.authorSantoro, Calogero M.
dc.contributor.authorRivadeneira, Marcelo M.
dc.contributor.authorLatorre, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorRothhammer, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorStanden, Vivien G.
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-24T00:09:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-24T00:09:37Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe study of complex funerary ritual development among hunters and gatherers societies should take into account how people made up for the continuity of their social system without the support of centralized organizations. This research integrates cultural and natural factors to explore how the Chinchorro carried on with their way of life isolated at geographically restricted perennial river mouths with fresh water along the Atacama Desert in the Pacific coast of South America. Within these rather crowded settlings, they created and maintained a social system catalyzed by a complex funerary tradition, embodied by a unique funerary ideological discourse that resulted in the creation of a sacred landscape or "spiritscape". We argue that the extreme hyperaridity of the coastal Atacama Desert (21 degrees-17.30 degrees S), and the extraordinary biomass production of the marine littoral constituted a fundamental milieu for the maintenance of their long-term social system. The Chinchorro belief system lasted for several millennia (8,000-4,000 BP), but new ways of life and burial practices followed major changes in the coastal ecosystem they relied on, which would have influenced how the "old tradition" was manifested over time. Conversely, we sustain that these natural "constraints" faced by the Chinchorro along the coast of the Atacama Desert, were influential, in the course of their history or the way they socially organized themselves.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.4067/S0717-73562012000400007
dc.identifier.issn0717-7356
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562012000400007
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/101995
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000319519100007
dc.issue.numero4
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final653
dc.pagina.inicio637
dc.revistaChungara-revista de antropologia chilena
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectChinchorro spiritscape
dc.subjectsacred landscape
dc.subjecthyperaridity
dc.subjectcoastal Atacama Desert
dc.subject.ods13 Climate Action
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.titleRISE AND DECLINE OF CHINCHORRO SACRED LANDSCAPES ALONG THE HYPERARID COAST OF THE ATACAMA DESERT
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen44
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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