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Archaeology of the Canton El Toco. Moving the frontiers of the visible through environmental impact assessment studies

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No. 47 (2023): Primer Semestre
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2023.71706

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The archaeology of nitrate exploitation during the 19th and 20th Centuries has developed in northern Chile during the last 15 years, “making visible” a series of materiality, agents, practices and/or social processes that are difficult to identify or little investigated in historiographic research, and thus contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the nitrate cycle in the current north of Chile. The renewed interest that nitrate archaeology has aroused in the Antofagasta region in the last 20 years originates from environmental impact studies in the El Toco canton that opened important lines of research on settlement patterns in the nitrate cantons which identified the complex and dynamic social practices that occurred on the margins of the nitrate offices and productive nodes. In the present work we intend to synthesize the information generated from the archaeology of environmental impact in the Commune of María Elena, updating and complementing the archaeological information available on the archaeology of saltpetre in the El Toco canton to contribute to the understanding of nitrate cantons in current northern Chile as complex, dynamic and diverse phenomena.

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archaeology, nitrate, El Toco, settlement, environmental impact

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Salazar, D., & Vilches, F. (2023). Archaeology of the Canton El Toco. Moving the frontiers of the visible through environmental impact assessment studies. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (47), 1–28. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-1472.2023.71706
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Revista Chilena de Antropología
Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad de Chile
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