A website that could interest you, if you want to know a little of Archaeology and prehistoric cultures, is the site of Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino (http://www2.precolombino.cl/es/index.php).
On this page, you can find information about the pre-Columbian groups in South America, especially those who used to live in Chilean territory. Also, they update the information of all the expositions, both permanent and temporary, that it’s presents in the museum.
Another interesting section is dedicated to the children. With cartoons, they try to explain in simple words different topics like the America settlement, cultures, art and how they lived.
Also, on this website you can learn about the pre-Columbian musical instruments and you can listen and download music of original groups that was made as an experimental work by the ethno-musicologists José Pérez de Arce and Claudio Mercado, who have a group call “La Chimuchina”.
A few months ago, when it’s working in an extension in the museum patio, it’s found cultural remains of the Colonial period, so the archaeologist must excavated the museum itself and you can see part of the excavation process in this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrnPOuQApkc&feature=player_embedded.
I like this website because you can find information of different topics and also papers about my career, but I visit it only sometimes...
Archaeology seems very complicated but the website and very interesting ...
ReplyDeleteI will visit the website :)
Hi Francisca, with the despription that you made, I think that this website is very useful to get information about the culture of the past. It's very interesting. Take care. :)
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ReplyDeleteYou've made a mistake... I bet you didn't wanted to use the verb 'realise'... you're using it as the spanish verb 'realizar', aren't you?
Anyway you made a great effort in that response... and you're right, the MChAP shouldn't be seen as an archaeologic museum, insted it should be framed within artistic paradigms...
Hi Frani... I like very much this museum and its website, because it present cultural contents in a educative way and with a tendency to the diffusion of the artistic and cultural patrimony. However is necessary to consider that this institution make a selection of the pre-columbian objects. Of these, the MChAP just choose the objects that present harmonious and atractives attributes. In this way, the MChAP communicate a discourse about the “artistic production” of the pre-Columbian cultures. Therefore, the patrimonial object’s collection is valued because its condition of beauty and its expert manufacturing... Simply, I believe that many aspects of daily life of the pre-Columbian cultures are left out...
ReplyDeleteVery interesting I'll see it, well done!
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