This research is involved in heritage restoration of the community of the Quillagua oasis in the Antofagasta Region. The project consists of the recovery of knowledge and practices relating to forest exploitation and forest management of the algarrobo prosopis. These are longstanding pre-Hispanic and colonial skills in process of disappearance. A forest that in ancient times favored intercultural links betweem hunter-marine gatherers and agro-sheperds of the Tarapaca oasis of Aymara-speaking dialect and those of San Pedro de Atacama, of Kunza-speaking dialect.
The study is part of the process of meta analysis of ethnographic and archaeological knowledge based on the data collected over the last fifty years of research. It will help to achieve the ambitious goal of unifying the archaeological heritage in a more consistent look, linking the past and present cultural material. Mensurar the role of bio-anthropological and archaeological research in the sense of contributing to the identity and heritage building through scientific knowledge.