The Andean highlands challenged but did not prevent human exploration and occupation
starting in the Late Pleistocene. The timing and nature of these events is an ongoing area of …

As with most living organisms, human populations respond to climatic, environmental, and
population pressures by transforming their range and subsistence strategies over space and …

Throughout Earth's most extreme environments, such as the Kalahari Desert or the Arctic,
hunter–gatherers found ingenious ways to obtain proteins and sugars provided by plants for …

Current scientific evidence shows that humans colonized South America at least 15,000
years ago, but there are still many unknown aspects of this process, including the major and …

This paper analyses the importance of the South Central Andean High Puna megapatch,
above 4000 masl, in the history of late Pleistocene exploration and colonization of the …

This article presents the results of excavations at the Infieles-1 site, located at 3529 masl in
the Salar de Infieles (25° S), highlands of the Chile's southern Puna ecoregion. An initial …

A key concern regarding current and future climate change is the possibility of sustained
droughts that can have profound impacts on societies. As such, multiple paleoclimatic …

The social groups that initially inhabited the hyper arid core of the Atacama Desert of
northern Chile during the late Pleistocene integrated a wide range of local, regional and …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has become a valuable site for investigation of
adaptive regimes of prehistoric humans to extreme environments. At present most studies …

The Altiplano constitutes the most extensive, high-elevation terrain in South America. Most
archaeological research on the earliest human occupation of this region in the Bolivian …