Abstract

ALE, Angelo. A social economic formation of hunter-gatherers in the semiarid northern Chile: a revaluation of San Pedro Viejo of Pichasca site. Zaranda ideas [online]. 2014, vol.11, pp.67-88. ISSN 1853-1296.

A proposal interpretative material record left by human groups who occupied the San Pedro Viejo of Pichasca Rockshelter in Hurtado River Valley (IVth Region of Coquimbo, Chile), is presented. Based on various analysis of the complex artifact recovered at the site, and its location context, we propose a way to approach the concrete society that would have been established in the rockshelter, based on the propositions and variables from the historical materialist approach. The results of this study, together with the data of the sites of neighboring areas with evidence of occupation during the Early and Middle Holocene, lets discuss the relationships and interactions between the cultural groups in these places and the groups of San Pedro Viejo of Pichasca and glimpse the social and historical processes related at this time of prehistory.

Keywords : Historical Materialism; Social economic formation; Hunter-gatherers; Semiarid Northern Chile; Early-Middle Holocene.

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