Early Holocene climate change and human occupation along the semiarid coast of north-central Chile

Journal of Quaternary Science

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 985-988

  Maldonado, Antonio ^a,b   Méndez, Cesar ^c   Ugalde, Paula ^d   Jackson, Donald ^c   Seguel, Roxana ^e   Latorre, Claudio ^f,g  

^a CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d DIBAM ^*  (Chile)

^e Direccion de Bibliotecas Archivos y Museos   (Chile)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

Author keywords

Charcoal; Palaeoindian; Pollen record; Semiarid Chile; Southern westerlies

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CALIBRATION; CHARCOAL; CLIMATE VARIATION; COAST; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PALYNOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION;

CHILE;

EID: 78149370621     PISSN: 02678179     EISSN: 10991417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jqs.1385     Document Type: Article

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