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[citation needed] Prehispanic Chile was peopled by diverse Amerindian people who were located around the Andes and the coast. In the area to the north of the country, the Aymara and the Atacama began to cultivate land from the 11th century in the style of the Incas (growing plants on terraces on the sides of mountains with canal systems).
Landscape of Arica, Chile. The Chinchorro culture of South America was a preceramic culture that lasted from 9,100 to 3,500 years BP (7,000 to 1,500 BCE). The people forming the Chinchorro culture were sedentary fishermen inhabiting the Pacific coastal region of current northern Chile and southern Peru. Presence of fresh water in the arid ...
Animal figures and symbols abound but images of people did not appear unless they were important or had some magical significance for the tribe. [3] Petroglyphs south of Atacama, Chile, near to the facilities of La Silla Observatory, Atacama Region, northern Chile. The cultural references varied depending on the area where the people lived.
Prehispanic history of Chile; T. Tiwanaku Empire This page was last edited on 4 October 2024, at 20:17 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Chile has attempted to develop hydropower projects in indigenous territory where the rivers that the energy companies hope to use are sacred to the Mapuche people. One area impacted by hydropower development is the Puelwillimapu Territory, whose interconnected waterways are referred to as the watershed of Wenuleufu or the ‘River Above ...
The museum is located in the city centre of Santiago, the capital of Chile. The museum was founded by the Chilean architect and antiquities collector Sergio Larraín García-Moreno , who had sought premises for the display and preservation of his private collection of pre-Columbian artefacts acquired over the course of nearly fifty years.
The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, [1] are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern Peru to north-central Chile, including the coast of the Atacama Desert. Although much of the customs and culture of the Chango people have disappeared and in many cases they ...
The Chinchorro mummies are mummified remains of individuals from the South American Chinchorro culture, found in what is now northern Chile.They are the oldest examples of artificially mummified human remains, having been buried up to two thousand years before the Egyptian mummies.