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Lithic Technology and the use of Space during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene transition in Imilac and Punta Negra basins, Atacama Desert (24,5°S) (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Loyola. Isabel Cartajena. Lautaro Nuñez. Carlos Aschero. Patricio Lopez.

Despite its extreme aridity, the Atacama Desert (18-25ºS) was not a biogeographical barrier during the period concerned with the early peopling of the area and of other regions in South America (12.6 ka). The Imilac and Punta Negra (24ºS) high altitude basins, located in the Precordillera of the Andes (3000 masl), are among the few micro-regions of the Atacama Desert which were continually occupied during the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene transition (12.6-10.2 ka). Results from the analyses...