Cultivated wetlands and emerging complexity in south-central Chile and long distance effects of climate change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3285399
AutoresT D Dillehay (0000-0002-8710-2805, Austral University of Chile), Mario Pino Quivira (Austral University of Chile), Renee M Bonzani (0000-0003-2932-3711, University of Kentucky), Renée Bonzani, Claudia Silva (0000-0002-5334-3424, University of Concepción), Johannes Wallner (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Carlos Le Quesne
Año2007
Volumen81
Número314
Páginas949-960
Fecha de publicación2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00096034
OpenAlexW2098477181
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas32

Lands in south-central Chile, long thought to have been marginal until the Spanish conquest, are here shown to have been developing complex societies between at least AD 1000 and 1500. Part of the motor was provided by coastland cultivation on raised platforms, here identified and surveyed for the first time. The authors date the field systems and suggest that they were introduced by farmers from the north seeking wetlands in the face of increasing aridity in the central Andes and southern Amazon

Amazon rainforest · Ancient history · Archaeology · Arid · Climate change · CONQUEST · Geography · Marsh · Wetland · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · History