Meteorites of Campo del Cielo: Impact on the indian culture

GIMÉNEZ BENÍTEZ, SIXTO; LÓPEZ, ALEJANDRO MARTÍN; MAMMANA, LUIS

Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España

Conferencia; International Conference "Oxford VI & SEAC 99. Astronomy and cultural diversity"; 1999

Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos del Cabildo de Tenerife, Universidad de La Laguna, Societe Europeene pour l'Astronomie dans la Culture, International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture

This work is a critical revision of the statements and deductions that have been taken as certain until the moment, about the impact on the indian cultures of the Chaco (Argentina), of the remarkable meteoric dispersion of Campo del Cielo (aprox. 4000-2000 BC.), confronting them with the modern ethnography and our own field work. It is also to specify the relationship degree between the toponymy of the area and the astronomical phenomenon in question .