Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 77, Issue , 2013, Pages 19-30

  Latorre, Claudio ^a,b   Santoro, Calogero M ^c,d   Ugalde, Paula C ^d   Gayo, Eugenia M ^c,d   Osorio, Daniela ^d   Salas Egaña, Carolina ^c   De Pol Holz, Ricardo ^e,f   Joly, Delphine ^c,d   Rech, Jason A ^g  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^g MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama; Early Americans; Hyperarid environments; Late Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES; ATACAMA; EARLY AMERICANS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; GLACIAL INTERGLACIAL TRANSITION; HYPERARID ENVIRONMENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATEST PLEISTOCENE;

CHARCOAL; EMPLOYMENT; PLANTS (BOTANY);

LANDFORMS;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL HISTORY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LAST GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL; LITHIC FRAGMENT; OCCUPATION; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84881108281     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.008     Document Type: Article

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