This paper presents an analysis of the archaeological evidence of Andacollo county, (Region of Coquimbo), in the interior of the Semiarid North of Chile. The typological identification of the material remains collected superficially by neighbors of the locality and that are currently in the Sala Museográfica Yahuín, added to the documentation of the archaeological antecedents of the region of the Semiarid North of Chile, and the information of the main characteristics of the zone and its structure of resources, allows to distinguish with certain validity to the different cultural groups that would have settled in this place, and to know which were the factors that would have conditioned to this territory like settlement for these human populations. The data presented here make it possible to make a synthetic proposal of the Andacollo human occupation, which dates to the earliest moments of the Early Holocene, with the settlement of hunter-gatherer groups to the low-scale historical mining and pastoral occupations.
Alé, A. (2017). Human occupations in Andacollo (Semiarid Northern Chile): an interpretive proposal. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (36), 275–294. Retrieved from https://revistachilenahumanidades.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/47493
