Two satellite images of chacus: drystone structures made up of two walls forming a V-shape, tapering to a circular enclosure.
These are chacus: funnel-shaped hunting traps used in the high altitudes of northern Chile to capture vicuña, a wild relative of the alpaca. Even after herding and agropastoralism was adopted, chacus continued to be used by persevering forager groups.
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