Climate change underlies global demographic, genetic, and cultural transitions in pre-Columbian southern Peru

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

Volumn 111, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 9443-9448

  Fehren Schmitz, Lars ^a,b   Haak, Wolfgang ^c   Mächtle, Bertil ^d   Masch, Florian ^b   Llamas, Bastien ^c   Cagigao, Elsa Tomasto ^e   Sossna, Volker ^f   Schittek, Karsten ^g   Cuadrado, Johny Isla ^h   Eitel, Bernhard ^d   Reindel, Markus ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^f GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h Andes Centro de Investigación para la Arqueología y el Desarrollo   (Peru)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Population history; South America

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE;

ANCIENT DNA; POPULATION HISTORY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROUGHTS; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERU; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84903745698     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1403466111     Document Type: Article

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