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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.008
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84881108281
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Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile
作者: Latorre C.; Santoro C.M.; Ugalde P.C.; Gayo E.M.; Osorio D.; Salas-Egaña C.; De Pol-Holz R.; Joly D.; Rech J.A.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2013
卷: 77
起始页码: 19
结束页码: 30
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Atacama ; Early Americans ; Hyperarid environments ; Late Pleistocene
Scopus关键词: 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
英文摘要: Few archeological sites in South America contain uncontroversial evidence for when the first peopling of the continent occurred. Largely ignored in this debate, extreme environments are assumed either as barriers to this early wave of migration or without potential for past habitability. Here, we report on a rare 12-13ka human occupation from Quebrada Maní (site QM12), a plantless, near rainless landscape (1240m asl and 85km from the Pacific Ocean) located in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. This location harbored wetlands and riparian woodlands that were fed by increased rainfall further east in the central Andes during the latest Pleistocene. Excavations at QM12 yielded a diverse cultural assemblage of lithics, burned and cut bones, marine gastropods, pigments, plant fibers, and wooden artifacts alongside a prepared fireplace. Sixteen radiocarbon dates from site QM12 on charcoal, marine shells, animal dung, plant remains and wood reveal that the occupation took place between 12.8 and 11.7ka. These results demonstrate that the Atacama Desert was not a barrier to early American settlement and dispersal, and provide new clues for understanding the cultural complexity and diversity of the peopling of South America during the Last Glacial-interglacial transition. © 2013 The Authors.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60520
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作者单位: Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile; Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB), Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile; Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Antofagasta 1520, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile; Centro de Investigaciones del Hombre en el Desierto (CIHDE), Av. General Velásquez 1775, Arica, Chile; Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Tarapacá, 18 de Septiembre 2222, Casilla 6-D, Arica, Chile; Earth System Science Department, University of California at Irvine, B321 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, United States; Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Barrio Universitario s/n, Concepción, Chile; Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, United States

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Latorre C.,Santoro C.M.,Ugalde P.C.,et al. Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2013-01-01,77
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