Strata of the past in the Atacama desert.

Interview with Lautaro Núñez

Abstract

During the months of December 2020 and January 2021, this interview was conducted via email with the archaeologist Lautaro Núñez, whose long career is already part of the history of the archeology of the Norte Grande and of national historiography. The interview was structured in order to give an account of the variety of interests to which he has dedicated himself, fostering a deepening of the issues and problems that have most moved him to reflect on his work and in particular on his own job in the broader sense: as someone dedicated to delving into the past. In this sense, it proposes a structure of four temporal strata that have occupied it at different moments in its trajectory, whose cross references and relationships are shaping the sense of the study of the past of the Atacama desert.