Llama Herding and Settlement in Prehispanic Northern Chile: Application of an Analysis for Determining Domestication
- 1 July 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 40 (3) , 296-305
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279691
Abstract
A new technique involving microscopy distinguishes wild from domestic camelids in collections from archaeological deposits in the Atacama Desert. Results of the faunal analysis provide additional critical data which allow a more complete reconstruction of the changes in economic and settlement patterns and of the cultural processes these changes may have involved.Keywords
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