Valentina Hernández-Águila

Breaking ground, beyond the floor assumption: An experimental approach to seaweed ash-cemented deposits in the Atacama Desert coast

On the Atacama Desert coast, a unique type of ash-cemented deposit has been reported in architectural stone-built structures from the Late Archaic Period (ca. 5500–4000 BP). Functional approaches traditionally infer these layers as domestic constructed floors that also served to...