Nautical mythologies of Atacama: the caballito de totora of Jean-Christian Spahni

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dc.contributor.authorBallester, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorCabello, Gloria
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-20T21:01:23Z
dc.date.available2025-01-20T21:01:23Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractA totora reed raft has appeared repeatedly in Chilean archaeology since 1967. Over time, as bi-ography after biography of Jean-Christian Spahni invented a new object based on the original piece -each different from its predecessor -the supposed miniature raft became accepted as irrefutable evidence of these vessels' antiquity and pre-Hispanic navigation in northern Chile and even the Andes. A recent study at the Musee d'ethnographie de Geneve in Switzerland revealed that the object is not a raft but a bundle of vegetable fibers. Common in the funerary contexts of the Formative period in northern Chile, this type of artifact is described as paint-brushes, brushes, combs or packs of raw materials. Jean-Christian Spahni's initial confusion and his biographers' reproductions are inputs for discussing how we construct archaeological evidence and write accounts in prehistory.
dc.description.funderANID-FONDECYT
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2022-0012
dc.identifier.issn0718-1043
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.22199/issn.0718-1043-2022-0012
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/92871
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000889614800001
dc.issue.numero68
dc.language.isoen
dc.revistaEstudios atacamenos
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectcreated object
dc.subjectnavigation
dc.subjectvessel
dc.subjectAtacama
dc.subjectLoa river mouth
dc.titleNautical mythologies of Atacama: the caballito de totora of Jean-Christian Spahni
dc.typeartículo
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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