Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the history of study and the current status of Mid-
Holocene climatic and cultural change in the South Central Andes, which host a wide range …

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 …

Study of human adaptation to extreme environments is important for understanding our
cultural and genetic capacity for survival. The Pucuncho Basin in the southern Peruvian …

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 …

In the High Andes, much of the traditional knowledge related to natural resource utilization
and agricultural practices was lost with the arrival of the Spaniards. That which has survived …

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

Traditional syntheses of the archaeology of the late Pleistocene period in South America
have focused primarily on the peopling of the continent by North American cultural groups …

El proceso de domesticación de los camélidos y el origen y estabilización de la estrategia
pastoril ha sido un tema de crucial importancia en los estudios arqueológicos andinos. El …

The Chinchorros were a preceramic fishing society that inhabited the Atacama coast of
southern Peru and northern Chile from about 7020 to 1110 BC, and their antiquity is much …

Northern Chile, part of the south central Andes, consists of two main ecological subareas:
extreme northern Chile, including the western valleys, and the Atacama Desert and oases …