The Reitz Stuff: A Faunal Perspective on El Niño from Coastal Peru

Author(s): Daniel Sandweiss; Fred Andrus

Year: 2016

Summary

For the last thirty years, zooarchaeological data from coastal Peru have provided groundbreaking insight into the Holocene history of El Niño, the interannual climatic phenomenon that affects global climate and human societies. Elizabeth J. Reitz has authored important studies with both of us on El Niño and faunal biogeography, and she served as a mentor to one of us in developing biochemical proxies for El Niño. In this paper, we review the history of faunal studies of El Niño and analyze current understanding of El Niño's past behavior in light of the latest data.

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The Reitz Stuff: A Faunal Perspective on El Niño from Coastal Peru. Daniel Sandweiss, Fred Andrus. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403047)

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Keywords

General
El Niño • Peru • Zooarchaeology

Geographic Keywords
South America

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;