Political and land struggle between the Mapuche people and the Chilean State is an ongoing process since 1860. The aim of this work is to examine the way in which Chilean archaeological research, as a State scientific policy, has linked in discourse and practice the archaeological contexts of southern Chile -and the construction of its historical narrative- with the people that still today vindicate an independent territorial and political unity. Through the review of archaeological works in the Gulumapu, it proposes a discourse on prehistory about the Chilean national state project and its contingent political conditions. In this sense, it is observed a first stage of construction of ancestral mapuche history on the light of its presumed assimilation into a unitary Chilean identity; and a present phase on which regional prehistory is elaborated rather dissociated with the late and current history of the mapuche people.
Sierralta, S. (2017). Chilean archaeology in the Gulumapu: historical narrative in a conflict zone. Revista Chilena De Antropología, (36), 255–274. Retrieved from https://revistas.uchile.cl/index.php/RCA/article/view/47492
