The impact of enso in the atacama desert and australian arid zone: Exploratory time-series analysis of archaeological records

Chungara

Volumn 40, Issue ESPECIAL, 2008, Pages 245-259

  Williams, Alan ^a,b   Santoro, Calogero M ^c   Smith, Michael A ^d   Latorre, Claudio ^e,f  

^a HLA Envirosciences Pty Limited   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto   (Chile)

^d NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Australian arid zone; ENSO variability; Human environmental interactions; Population history; Post glacial time series analysis; Radiocarbon probability plots

Indexed keywords

EID: 66249138354     PISSN: 07161182     EISSN: 07177356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-73562008000300003     Document Type: Article

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