Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Science Advances

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Dillehay, Tom D ^a   Goodbred, Steve ^a   Pino, Mario ^b   Vásquez Sánchez, Víctor F ^c   Tham, Teresa Rosales ^d   Adovasio, James ^e   Collins, Michael B ^f,g   Netherly, Patricia J ^a   Hastorf, Christine A ^h   Chiou, Katherine L ^h   Piperno, Dolores ^i,j   Rey, Isabel ^k   Velchoff, Nancy ^f  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c Centro de Investigaciones Arqueobiológicos y Paleoecológicos Andinos   (Peru)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRUJILLO   (Peru)

^e FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^j SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^k MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE WETLANDS; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; HUMAN TRANSPORTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PROCUREMENT STRATEGY; RADIOCARBON AGE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHEOLOGY; FOOD; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; PERU; PROCEDURES; TECHNOLOGY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOOD; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; PERU; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 85026998502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602778     Document Type: Article

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