Macroscopic features of scurvy in human skeletal remains: A literature synthesis and diagnostic guide

AME Snoddy, HR Buckley, GE Elliott… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The past two decades have seen a proliferation in bioarchaeological literature on the
identification of scurvy, a disease caused by chronic vitamin C deficiency, in ancient human …

Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile

EM Gayo, VB McRostie, R Campbell, C Flores… - Elem Sci …, 2019 - online.ucpress.edu
The deep-time dynamics of coupled socio-ecological systems at different spatial scales is
viewed as a key framework to understand trends and mechanisms that have led to the …

Continuities and discontinuities in the socio-environmental systems of the Atacama Desert during the last 13,000 years

CM Santoro, JM Capriles, EM Gayo… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Understanding how human societies interacted with environmental changes is a major goal
of archaeology and other socio-natural sciences. In this paper, we assess the human …

Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

PA Marquet, CM Santoro, C Latorre… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The emergence of complex cultural practices in simple hunter-gatherer groups poses
interesting questions on what drives social complexity and what causes the emergence and …

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

EM Gayo, C Latorre, CM Santoro - Quaternary International, 2015 - Elsevier
Developing spatially resolved high-resolution datasets of robust long-term changes in
human demography constitutes a major challenge for archaeology. One approach is to use …

[HTML][HTML] Andean peatlands at risk? Spatiotemporal patterns of extreme NDVI anomalies, water extraction and drought severity in a large-scale mining area of Atacama …

RO Chavez, O Meseguer-Ruiz, M Olea… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the Andes, multiple human and climatic factors threaten the conservation of bofedales, a
type of high altitude peat forming wetland widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical …

Hydroclimate variability in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2500 yr

EM Gayó, C Latorre, CM Santoro… - Climate of the …, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
Paleoclimate reconstructions reveal that Earth system has experienced sub-millennial scale
climate changes over the past two millennia in response to internal/external forcing …

[HTML][HTML] Cronología y organización económica de las poblaciones arcaicas de la costa de Taltal

D Salazar, V Figueroa, P Andrade, H Salinas… - Estudios …, 2015 - SciELO Chile
El presente trabajo constituye una reevaluación de la secuencia cronológico-cultural del
período Arcaico en Taltal, en un intento por documentar las continuidades y …

[HTML][HTML] Scurvy at the agricultural transition in the Atacama desert (ca 3600–3200 BP): nutritional stress at the maternal-foetal interface?

AME Snoddy, SE Halcrow, HR Buckley… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Studies of contemporary populations have demonstrated an association between decreased
dietary diversity due to resource scarcity or underutilization and an increase in diseases …

Mobility and exchange among marine hunter-gatherer and agropastoralist communities in the Formative Period Atacama Desert

WJ Pestle, C Torres-Rouff, F Gallardo… - Current …, 2015 - journals.uchicago.edu
Northern Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the most unforgiving landscapes on the planet;
however, a variety of complex risk-mitigation strategies facilitated long-term human …