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North and South: Hunter-Gatherer Communities in the Andes Mountains in Central Chile
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
One of the most serious limitations in studies of prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies based on the archaeological record has been the difficulty of establishing distinctions among groups that inhabited a given area at the same time. This article suggests that, at least during a period ranging from 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1000, the Central Chilean Andes, specifically the Maipo River Valley, was occupied by two groups of hunter-gatherers that were distinct enough for us to propose that they were actually two different social units.
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Una de las grandes limitaciones en el estudio de las sociedades de cazadores-recolectores prehistóricas a partir del registro arqueológico ha sido la dificultad para poder establecer distinciones entre grupos que habitaron contemporáneamente un área determinada. En el presente artículo proponemos que, al menos durante un periodo que va entre los años 3000 a.C. y 1000 d.C., la Cordillera Andina de Chile Central, específicamente la cuenca del Río Maipo, fue ocupada por dos grupos de cazadores-recolectores que exhiben diferencias significativas que permiten suponer que ellos representarían a unidades sociales distintas.
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