Paleoindian settlement of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes

Science

Volumn 346, Issue 6208, 2014, Pages 466-469

  Rademaker, Kurt ^a,b,g   Hodgins, Gregory ^c   Moore, Katherine ^d   Zarrillo, Sonia ^e   Miller, Christopher ^b,f   Bromley, Gordon R M ^g   Leach, Peter ^h   Reid, David A ⁱ   Álvarez, Willy Yépez ^e   Sandweiss, Daniel H ^a,g  

^a University of Maine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e Department of Anthropology and Archaeology ^*  (Peru)

^f Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoecology   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; OXYGEN; PLEISTOCENE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALTITUDE; ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ARCHEOLOGY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FORAGER; GRASSLAND; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LATE HOLOCENE; MIGRATION; PERU; PERUVIAN; PLEISTOCENE; PRESSURE; SEA LEVEL; SEMIARID CLIMATE; SOUTH AMERICA; STRATIGRAPHY; WETLAND; WORKSHOP; ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTIFACT;

ANDES; PERU;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; PERU;

EID: 84908239663     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1258260     Document Type: Article

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