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CLAAS Webinar – Adrián Oyaneder Rodríguez

Title: “Beyond the ‘Royal hunts’: cultural and material traces for the collective capturing of ungulates in the South-Central Andes” Adrián Oyaneder Rodríguez Universidad de Exeter Abstract. Collective ungulate capture using V- or funnel-shaped traps is well-documented in Africa and Asia (e.g., desert kites) but has been sparsely studied in the South-Central Andes. Locally known as chacu or "royal hunts," this pre-Hispanic technique—employed by the Inka and later Andean communities to capture vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) and feral donkeys—is more complex than previously recognised. Colonial records reference a specialised group of vicuña hunters called the Choquela, while in the southwest of Lake Titicaca, the Aymara Choquela ritual dance reenacts chacu hunts. Among the Uru Chipaya of Bolivia’s Salar de Coipasa, myths recount a wind-borne vicuña hunt following a route from Chile into the Bolivian highlands, tracing toponyms linked to nearly 300 chacu traps—the highest concentration known in South America. Drawing on archival, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence, this talk broadens the understanding of these V-shaped traps in the South-Central Andes, suggesting that this cultural practice has deep historical roots in northernmost Chile, southwestern Bolivia, and southern Peru. Adrián Oyaneder Rodríguez is a Database Manager for the AHRC-funded project Biocultural Heritage Information in a Virtual Environment at the University of Exeter. Adrián is a Chilean archaeologist focusing on South American archaeology, particularly Andean studies. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in northern Chile. His work integrates geomatics and digital technologies to study and digitise archaeological heritage, with a particular interest in collaborative research with Indigenous and local communities. Currently, he leads a University of Exeter and a European Space Agency-funded project on the “chacu” hunting traps in northern Chile. Dr. Oyaneder obtained his BA Hons in Social Anthropology with a major in Archaeology at the Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile. He completed his PhD at the University of Exeter, funded by the Becas Chile-ANID doctoral scholarship. His doctoral research was a multitemporal and multiscale study using archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and geographic data to examine the traces of subaltern indigenous groups in the Andean highlands of northernmost Chile.