COEXISTENCIA DE CAZADORES RECOLECTORES Y HORTICULTORES TEMPRANOS EN LA CORDILLERA ANDINA DE CHILE CENTRAL.

Recent studies in the Andean mountains of central Chile allow us to identify, the coexistence of two different ways of life in the same territory during the Early Ceramic period (350 B. C. to A.D. 900). On the one hand, one way of life corresponds to a populations of hunter-gatherers who continued the Archaic tradition, especially in economic aspects and in a mainly curated lithic technology, while acquiring a few pots from other ceramic-producing groups. On the other hand, a second way of life corresponds to a semi-sedentary population with a horticultural economy, a developed ceramic technology, and a mainly expedient lithic assemblage. Both populations coexisted and interacted until around A.D. 900. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]