My favourite piece of technology

My favourite piece of technology

I have my first GPS, “eTrex Summit HC”, I bought it in the Garmin Gps Store in the Parque Arauco shopping center, last year. I paid four hundred dollars.
My GPS is small, grey, easy to transport and simple to use.
I use the equipment for several archaeological purposes, for example to make a truck between many points; to locate new sites and calculate the altitude of them. There´s as very exactly virtual map.
At the present, all the archaeological scientific papers need to use the Global Positioning System (GPS).
I use my GPS in every travel and expedition that I make. I like my GPS, because it´s my best travel friend!!!
Without my GPS my trip would be lonely and confuse.

EXHIBITION

Chinchorro Mommies...Site Museum.

Last year, in October, I visited the new museum “Colón 10”, located in Arica city, extreme north of Chile. This museum has a spectacular exhibition of ancient mommies of the Chinchorro culture.  

The bodies and skeletons remains exactly have they were found by the archaeologist and they were covered by thick glass.

You can walk over the glass and see the authentic funerary mummification techniques and identify the black mummies, red mummies and bandaged mummies. The display doesn’t use copies or reproduction bodies.  

The Chinchorro´s people originated in the Camarones valley, around the 7000 BC and expanded through the Atacama Desert costal between Ilo valley in the north and Loa river, in the south. They were fishermen, and they used simple but very efficient technology.

I love the site Museum of  Colon 10!

I liked the exhibition, and I think that is something unique of our country. 

You have to go! 

THE LIFE...

Hello!

My name is Carolina Gatica D

I am 31 years old. I was born in Santiago. I am married and we have a beautiful baby of 3 years old. My husband is Archaeologist and he works in the National Museum of Natural History. I love Archaeology always!!

I am a lawyer and I worked in SERMAN for three years, in the attention center for Women, helping in cases of serious violence.

Then, I am studed in the post title of the environmental law, because I m interested in the national monument law.

 Now I am studying Archaeology in the last year, because I want to work in the protection of the Archaeological sites.

The low application is important because it is very necessary are real protection in the archaeological monument of Chile.