The history of the southern central Andes, including the world's second largest plateau and
adjacent intermontane basins and ranges of the Eastern Cordillera and the northern Sierras …

Como a América do Sul se estende por diferentes latitudes e possui formas de relevo
variadas, proporciona a atuação e o desenvolvimento de diferentes sistemas atmosféricos …

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 …

The Atacama along the Pacific Coast of Chile and Peru is one of the driest and possibly
oldest deserts in the world. It represents an extreme habitat for life on Earth and is an analog …

The sedimentary succession in the Atacama Desert records deposition under an arid to
semiarid climate from the late Jurassic (150 Ma) to the present day. Palaeomagnetic data …

Aridity prevails over more than one third of the land area of the Earth and over a significant
fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference …

We have compiled 36 previously published palaeoclimate records to determine the timing
and spatial pattern of century-scale abrupt changes in Asian monsoon precipitation since …

Abstract Analysis of mollusks from archaeological sites on the north and central coasts of
Peru indicates that between ca. 5800 and 3200–2800 cal yr BP, El Niño events were less …

Widespread evidence for human occupation of the Atacama Desert, 20° to 25° S in northern
Chile, has been found from 13,000 calibrated 14C years before the present (cal yr BP) to …

Abstract Large paleolakes (∼ 33,000–60,000 km2) that once occupied the high-altitude
Poopo, Coipasa, and Uyuni Basins in southern Bolivia (18–22° S) provide evidence of major …