indigenous of chile



From this work, we will be able to inform us of the great variety of Chilean Indigenous people who, before us, poblated our lands. Many of them are already extinct, only left important manifestations of their culture, giving us know their beliefs, economic activities and customs.
What characterized Chilean territory in the Prehispanic period, from north to south, was  the existence of different peoples with different levels of cultural development. At the arrival of the Spaniards, in Chile were farmers and potters; Hunters and Gatherers; and lastly the Nomads Fishermen.
Its estimated that Man arrived in Chile before 10,000 BC. As a testimony of that,  is the Ghatchi deposit, at east of San Pedro de Atacama. In the central zone, its difficult to say of what cardinal point the man came from the north or from the east. At 9,000 BC belong the remains found in the Taguatagua lake. The oldest footprint was found in the Fell cave, in the north of the Strait of Magellan,  of the year 8,760 BC
in the first place we have the cultures of fishermen or nomads of the sea.
they are the group of groups that, in the north and in the south of the country, developed a life associated with the marine resources, reason why there are registered of these ethnic groups throughout the whole territory, in the north existed the changos and cuncos and at the south were the chonos, alacalufes and yaganes.
on the other hand are the hunters and gatherers or land nomads.
This is the set of Tribes and Peoples whose main activity was the collection and hunting of animals, which led to the emergence and extinction of some of them. They were located throughout the country, mainly in the interior valleys. They developed agriculture strongly, and the main ones were the chiquillanes, pehuenches, puelches, poyas, tehuelches and onas.