Archaeologists have been using luminescence to date pottery in South America since the
late 1970s, inspired by early success in northern Chile. However, luminescence dates have …

We present isotopic and morphometric evidence suggesting the migration of farmers in the
southern Andes in the period AD 1270–1420, leading up to the Inka conquest occurring~ AD …

This paper explores the relationships between population change and human diet after the
adoption of domesticated resources in northwest Mendoza, a subregion of central western …

All crops are the product of a domestication process that started less than 12,000 years ago
from one or more wild populations,. Farmers selected desirable phenotypic traits (such as …

In this paper we explore how changes in human strategies are differentially modulated by
climate in a border area between hunter-gatherers and farmers. We analyze multiple …

The goal of this paper is to assess the variation in the proportional contribution of diverse
resources to the diet of human populations from northwest Patagonia (Argentina) throughout …

Our goal is to study the spatio-temporal changes in human demographic density in
Northwest Patagonia and central Chile throughout the Late Pleistocene-Holocene using geo …

Abstract In Central Western Argentina (CWA), the incorporation of cultigens by hunter-
gatherer populations has been much discussed. This paper explores the relationship …

The southern Mendoza province, located in the northern region of Patagonia, was inhabited
by hunter-gatherer groups until historic times. Previous archaeological studies have …

Abstract Central Western Argentina is an area archeologically defined as one of the
southernmost limits of farming in the pre-Hispanic Americas. Optimal foraging models help …