Timing of occupation and regional settlement patterns revealed by time-series analyses of an archaeological radiocarbon database for the South-Central Andes (16°-25°S)

Quaternary International

Volumn 356, Issue , 2015, Pages 4-14

  Gayo, Eugenia M ^a,b   Latorre, Claudio ^c,d   Santoro, Calogero M ^a,e  

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

^b University of Concepción   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA Y BIODIVERSIDAD IEB   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

Author keywords

Atacama desert; Central andes; Palaeodemography; Summed probabilities; Time series

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOCLIMATOLOGY; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALTIPLANO; ANDES; ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84919625688     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.09.076     Document Type: Article

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