This paper reviews archaeological research of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in
Bolivia. Given that few projects have explicitly dealt with issues related to early human …

The data presented in this paper provide direct microbotanical evidence concerning the
early use of potato (Solanum tuberosum) within its botanical locus of origin in the high south …

As obligate tool users, humans habitually reconfigure resource distributions on landscapes.
Such resource restructuring would have played a nontrivial role in shaping hunter-gatherer …

Archaic projectile points from the Andean Altiplano exhibit a curious trend of increasing size
over time, in contrast to a well-documented size reduction throughout North America …

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of
the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making …

The extent to which archery technology affected social organization in the Andes region of
South America remains understudied. To identify the timing and consequences of archery …

Los autores identifican los problemas de investigación del Período Arcaico (10.000-3.400
ap) en la zona Centro-Sur de los Andes, para sugerir las prioridades que se deben tomar en …

Abstract The Lake Titicaca Basin is one of the regions in the world where both primary
village and state formation occurred in prehistory. Although agriculture has been discussed …

The Altiplano constitutes the most extensive, high-elevation terrain in South America. Most
archaeological research on the earliest human occupation of this region in the Bolivian …

Severe aridity during the mid-Holocene, ca. 8.0–4.0 kyr BP, led to extreme ecological stress
in the tropical Andes. Here, we report paleolimnological and archeological data from Lake …