NATAMST 90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Salar De Atacama, Francisco Gallardo, Atacama Desert
5 Nov 2018
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Camelids in early formative rock art of the atacama. Desert (northern chile) -- francisco gallardo and hugo yacobaccio. Camelid domestication in andean region began 5,000 years b. p. (before present) with development of two tame varieties (llamas & alpacas) Lack of methods to distinguish wild from domesticated species in rock art has limited ability to comprehend means by which ancient inhabitants of andean region culturally organized & represented their surrounding world. If you just study one way of assessing history, you miss a lot! Vicuna & guanaco exhibit forms of social organization based on hierarchy & territoriality. Guanaco form small groups, are migratory & territorially lax. Guanaco herds tend to be dispersed, only occasionally forming seasonal mixed groups during winter. Gunaco family groups are more numerous compared to those of the vicuna. Both groups are aggressive behavior by adult males, which is true for alpha male leader.
