A cuel in the valley of Purén amidst an Eucalyptus plantation (38°4′34.80″S 72°53′13″W / 38.0763333°S 72.88694°W).
The cuel are Mapuche-built tumulus. The best known cuels are near the localities of Purén and Lumaco in Araucanía, south-central Chile. The first significant studies of the cuel were published by Tom Dillehay and José Saavedra in 2003 and 2007.[1][2] The word cuel is a neologism formed from the mapudungun word kuel, meaning boundary marker (Spanish: lindero) according to the 18th century dictionary of Andrés Febrés.[3]
References
- ^ Dillehay, Tom. (2007). Monuments, empires and resistance. Cambridge University Press. 504 p.
- ^ Dillehay, Tom D.; Saavedra Z., José (2003). "Interacción Humana y Ambiente: el desarrollo de Kuel en Puren-Lumanco (Region de la Araucania)" (PDF). Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish) (7).
- ^ Febrés, Andrés (1765). Arte de la lengua general del Reyno de Chile (in Spanish). Lima. p. 463.