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      El campamento minero Chuquicamata-2 y la explotación cuprífera prehispánica en el Desierto de Atacama

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          Se presentan los primeros estudios del campamento minero Chu-2 con evidencias de explotación cuprífera previa al dominio inca, utilizado desde fines del Período Formativo, hasta el Intermedio Tardío, constituyendo el primer asentamiento de este tipo reconocido en el sector de Chuquicamata-Tomic. La relación de tareas mineras extractivas, asociadas a alfarería de las cuencas del Loa y Atacama, Altiplano Meridional, Valles Occidentales de Tarapacá, y rutas caravaneras, posicionan a Chu-2 como un sitio clave para entender las labores mineras fuera de los valles, en un medio alejado de los recursos de agua, dando cuenta del objetivo minero vinculado a afloramientos de atacamita, cobre nativo y de color, que incluían tanto la materia prima para fundido, como para aplicaciones ritualísticas y de ornato. Se propone que representa a grupos mineros provenientes de asentamientos estables no como eventos aislados ni espontáneos, sino al interior de políticas expansivas de explotación de las poblaciones del río Loa Medio-Superior y de San Pedro de Atacama

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          This work gives the results of the first studies carried out in mining camp Chu-2, with evidence of copper exploitation activities previous to Inca rule. This site is the first of its kind in the Chuquicamata-Tomic area, and was occupied from close to the end of the Formative Period, until the Late Intermediate. The relationship between extractive mining activities, associated to ceramics from the southern Altiplano, the occidental valleys of Tarapaca, the Loa and Atacama basins, and their caravanning routes, position Chu-2 as a site that is a key to the understanding of mining labour outside the valleys, in environments far from any water resource. This enables an account of the purposes of Atacamita, and native and coloured copper mining, from the uses of the material that was needed for smelting and those used in ornamental and ritual applications. We propose that the site does not represent an isolated or spontaneous event, but the presence of mining groups that came from stable settlements, suggesting expansive exploitation politics that stemmed from the middle and higher Loa regions and San Pedro de Atacama

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                Journal
                eatacam
                Estudios atacameños
                Estud. atacam.
                Universidad Católica del Norte. Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Gustavo Le Paige (San Pedro de Atacama, , Chile )
                0718-1043
                2003
                : 25
                : 7-34
                Affiliations
                [02] orgnameUniversidad Católica del Norte, orgdiv1Universidad de Tarapacá. orgdiv2Programa Magíster pdesouza@ 123456ucn.cl
                [01] San Pedro de Atacama. orgnameUniversidad Católica del Norte, orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Museo R. P. Gustavo Le Paige s. j. maguero@ 123456ucn.cl
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                S0718-10432003002500002 S0718-1043(03)00002500002
                10.4067/S0718-10432003002500002
                fc8246e6-acd9-4771-a082-b1e827f66512

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : August 2003
                : January 2004
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                desierto de Atacama, minería prehispánica,asentamientos,Atacama Desert,pre-Hispanic mining,settlements

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