Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 14754-14760

  Marquet, Pablo A ^a,b,c   Santoro, Calogero M ^d,e   Latorre, Claudio ^a,b   Standen, Vivien G ^d,e   Abades, Sebastián R ^a,b   Rivadeneira, Marcelo M ^a,f   Arriaza, Bernardo ^d   Hochberg, Michael E ^c,g  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

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

^f UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Coastal desert; Cultural evolution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DESERT; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; MUMMIFICATION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

CHILE; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DESERT CLIMATE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; ICE COVER; MUMMIES; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONDITIONS;

EID: 84866274939     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1116724109     Document Type: Article

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