Perennial rivers in desert regions are relevant environments that tend to concentrate most
ecosystem services and values, but are not as studied as much as intermittent and …

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 …

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 …

Human activities cause widespread changes in landscape composition, which can affect
ecosystem services produced by these landscapes. It is usually believed that ecosystem …

The timing for the evolution of the capacity to inscribe the landscape with rock art has global
relevance. While this was an in-built capacity when Homo sapiens first colonized the …

Late Quaternary precipitation dynamics in the central Andes have been linked to both high-
and low-latitude atmospheric teleconnections. We use present-day relationships between …

The overall trajectory for the human–environment interaction has been punctuated by
demographic boom-and-bust cycles, phases of growth/overshooting as well as of …

The feathers of tropical birds were one of the most significant symbols of economic, social,
and sacred status in the pre-Columbian Americas. In the Andes, finely produced clothing …

Archaeological and palaeoecological studies throughout the Americas have documented
widespread landscape and environmental transformation during the pre-Columbian era …

The study of the peopling of the Americas has been transformed in the past decade by
astonishing progress in paleogenomic research. Ancient genomes now show that Native …