The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain
despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far …

The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert possesses important reserves of “fossil” or
ancient groundwater, yet the extent and timing of past hydrologic change during the late …

The emergence of complex cultural practices in simple hunter-gatherer groups poses
interesting questions on what drives social complexity and what causes the emergence and …

Over one thousand prehistoric crania (n = 1,149) from northern Chile were analyzed to
determine if the presence of external auditory exostosis (EAE) was a type of subsistence‐induced …

There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and South
Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the Moche…

… Author links open overlay panel Claudio Latorre a b , Calogero M. Santoro c d , Paula C. …
), a plantless, near rainless landscape (1240 m asl and 85 km from the Pacific Ocean) located …

Understanding how human societies interacted with environmental changes is a major goal
of archaeology and other socio-natural sciences. In this paper, we assess the human-…

Paleoclimate reconstructions reveal that Earth system has experienced sub-millennial scale
climate changes over the past two millennia in response to internal/external forcing. …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the history of study and the current status of Mid-Holocene
climatic and cultural change in the South Central Andes, which host a wide range of …

Developing spatially resolved high-resolution datasets of robust long-term changes in human
demography constitutes a major challenge for archaeology. One approach is to use the …