Abstract High-elevation (> 2500 m asl) environments pose severe challenges for human
adaptation, and the timing and catalysts of their sustained year-round occupation remain a …

Se sintetizan los procesos socioculturales y productivos de las ocupaciones arcaicas
costeñas y andinas de la circumpuna y valles occidentales, área Centro Sur Andina …

Approximately 9000 years ago at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa, forager
communities interred female and male individuals with projectile points, suggesting that …

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

Neolithization was a complex, protracted process of domestication, sedentarization, and
technology change that occurred in various combinations in various times and places …

In the fourth millennium BP, there were major environmental and cultural changes on the
Andean altiplano of South America, but the chronology remains vague. A recent synthesis …

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 …

Recent excavations at the site of Soro Mik'aya Patjxa in the south-central Andes have
revealed the earliest securely dated cultural features in the Lake Titicaca Basin …

Objectives The objective of this work is to characterize dental wear in a skeletal sample
dating to the Middle/Late Archaic period transition (8,000‐6,700 cal. BP) from the Lake …

Desarrollamos el contenido y alcances de la noción de transición a la producción de
alimentos (TPA) y su aplicación al tránsito de cazadores-recolectores a sociedades …