Archaeological sites in northern Chile

Archaeology in northern Chile has revealed the Chinchorro Tradition (7500–2500 B.P.), and the Altiplano or Andean Tradition (3000–0 B.P.) (see Rivera 1991 for a synthesis). Later, there was a prehispanic expansion of the Aymara culture in the souther Altiplano and San Pedro de Atacama area. While birdwatching there, I found two archaeology sites:

One was just a scattering of seemingly hand-worked flint or obsidian chips.









Another was a rock wall made in the crevace of a steep cliff. looking exactly like the Puebloan rock works I'm familiar with in Arizona. Here is site:













And here is the constructed rock wall, taken with a telephoto lens of the same site:



I would tell someone about these sites, if I knew whom to tell.