Chronology, stratigraphy and hydrological modelling of extensive wetlands and paleolakes in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert during the late quaternary

M Pfeiffer, C Latorre, CM Santoro, EM Gayo… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The halite-encrusted salt pans (salars) present at low elevations in the hyperarid core of the
Atacama Desert in northern Chile are unique features of one of the driest and possibly …

Timing of wet episodes in Atacama Desert over the last 15 ka. The Groundwater Discharge Deposits (GWD) from Domeyko Range at 25° S.

A Sáez, LV Godfrey, C Herrera, G Chong… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
A chronologically robust reconstruction of timing and dynamics of millennial time scale wet
episodes encompassing the entire Atacama Desert during the last 15 ka has been …

p3k14c, a synthetic global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates

D Bird, L Miranda, M Vander Linden, E Robinson… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human
demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded …

Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America

A Goldberg, AM Mychajliw, EA Hadly - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
As the last habitable continent colonized by humans, the site of multiple domestication
hotspots, and the location of the largest Pleistocene megafaunal extinction, South America is …

[HTML][HTML] A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes

N Nakatsuka, I Lazaridis, C Barbieri, P Skoglund… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
There are many unanswered questions about the population history of the Central and
South Central Andes, particularly regarding the impact of large-scale societies, such as the …

Positive feedbacks in deep-time transitions of human populations

M Lima, EM Gayo, SA Estay… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abrupt and rapid changes in human societies are among the most exciting population
phenomena. Human populations tend to show rapid expansions from low to high population …

Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates

ER Crema, A Bevan, S Shennan - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Summed probability distributions of radiocarbon dates are an increasingly popular means
by which to reconstruct prehistoric population dynamics, enabling more thorough cross …

Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using 14C dates

A Timpson, R Barberena… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Large anthropogenic 14C datasets are widely used to generate summed probability
distributions (SPDs) as a proxy for past human population levels. However, SPDs are a poor …

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 …

Did a 3800-year-old Mw ~9.5 earthquake trigger major social disruption in the Atacama Desert?

D Salazar, G Easton, J Goff, JL Guendon… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Early inhabitants along the hyperarid coastal Atacama Desert in northern Chile developed
resilience strategies over 12,000 years, allowing these communities to effectively adapt to …