Max Uhle en Chile (1911-1919). Sus aportes pioneros al estudio del Precerámico costeño

Authors

  • Hannes Erhardt

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v15i0.107-138

Abstract

Uhle's pioneering publications on the North-Chilean preceramic are analyzed with respect to their lasting influence on regional archaeology as well as to their particular theoretical framework. The German scholar's authorative judgement was decisive in the discovery and scientific legitimation of Chile's main "paleolithic" site, thereby establishing the typological paradigma for preceramic archaeology in Chile. But whereas this approach would finally fail with the collapse of the paleolithic debate in the 1970's, Uhle's remarkably precise definition of the spectacular "Chinchorro" funerary complex has remained fundamental to current research on the subject.

Published

1998-01-01

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