%0 Journal Article
%T OCUPACI¨®N HUMANA PLEISTOC¨¦NICA EN EL DESIERTO DE ATACAMA: PRIMEROS RESULTADOS DE LA APLICACI¨®N DE UN MODELO PREDICTIVO DE INVESTIGACI¨®N INTERDISCIPLINARIA
%A Santoro
%A Calogero M
%A Ugalde
%A Paula C
%A Latorre
%A Claudio
%A Salas
%A Carolina
%A Osorio
%A Daniela
%A Jackson
%A Donald
%A Gay¨®
%A Eugenia
%J Chungar¨¢ (Arica)
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0717-73562011000300003
%X in south america, evidence of human occupation dates back to 14,600 calibrated years bp (14.6 ka). yet, important areas such as the atacama desert, between latitude 17¡ã to 21¡ã s (northern atacama), lack occupations older than 11,5 ka. current hyperarid conditions in the atacama have dissuaded many researchers from considering this region as a possible territory for pleistocene-holocene peoples. paleoecological data, however, have suggested increased availability of water along the western slope of the andes from 17.5-9.5 ka. thus, we systematically searched for rodent middens and paleowetlands in the large canyons of the andean precordillera as well as the interfluves (1,000-3,000 masl). as a result, we identified specific habitats favorable for early human settling. this interdisciplinary and predictive methodological model, summarized in this paper, allowed us to identify several sites. among these, quebrada man¨ª 12 is the first pleistocene-holocene human occupation (~11.9 a 12.7 ka) known from the northern atacama.
%K pleistocene-holocene transition
%K early peopling
%K paleoenvironment
%K atacama desert.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0717-73562011000300003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en