A sedimentary record from the Peruvian Amazon provided evidence of climate and
vegetation change for the last 6900 years. Piston cores collected from the center of Lake …

This report presents an overview of the biological conservation of the humid montane forests
of Peru's eastern Andean slopes. The main aim of the report has been to attract more …

The manifestation of major climatic events such as the timing of deglaciation and whether, or
not, the Younger Dryas affected Andean systems has garnered considerable recent …

Chachapoya societies that lived on the forested eastern slopes of the Andes in northern
Peru between AD 1000 and 1450 remain largely absent from broader narratives of the …

Humid montane forests are challenging environments for human habitation. We used high-
resolution fossil pollen, charcoal, diatom and sediment chemistry data from the iconic …

At the cloud forest juncture of the northeastern Peruvian Andes and the upper Amazon
basin, the pre-Columbian societies subsumed under the label “Chachapoya culture” …

Objectives Inca imperial strategies of political and territorial expansion varied across
conquered regions depending on local ecology and cultural resistance, and Chachapoya …

The steep, wet, forested, slopes of the mid-elevation Andes have often been dismissed as
inimical to human occupation. A lack of ancient lakes in these habitats has limited the …

South American archaeologists use the term landscape to analyze a broad range of
relationships. Examples include intensive agriculture and political power, myth and place …

The last 2000 years in the tropical Andes was both a time of major pre-Hispanic and
Hispanic period cultural developments, and increased climate variability. From c. AD 1000 …