J M Capriles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 18945 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J M Capriles |
| NOMBRES | J M |
| APELLIDO | Capriles |
| FIRMA | CAPRILES J M |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6046-0939 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 225 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Archaeogenomic identification of ancient plant and feather remains from Túcume, Peru
Pleistocene Settlement
The technological, stylistic, and ecological diversity evident among the earliest archaeological sites with evidence of humans in South America suggests this process likely began much earlier than assumed by most scholars and questions theories and models about the human colonization of the entire New World. Relying on examples from some of South America’s earliest archaeological sites, we review the state of the art of what we know about this pr…
Pastoreo De Camélidos Y Uso Territorial Durante El Periodo Formativo Tardío
Las sociedades prehispnicas que se asentaron a orillas del Lago Titicaca desarrollaron procesos de crecimiento econmico gracias a estrategias de intensificacin agrcola y pastoreo de camlidos.Sin embargo, existen pocos estudios que hayan abordado cmo estos procesos acompaaron la formacin de organizaciones complejas como el Estado de Tiwanaku (550-1100 DC), particularmente porque los territorios lacustres dedicados al pastoralismo antes de Tiwanaku…
Diversified human dietary strategies and settlement patterns in the core of the Atacama Desert during the late Pleistocene-Holocene transition (∼12.8 – 11.2 ka)
Nuevas dataciones sobre restos humanos del centro de Argentina y su aporte a la discusión del poblamiento de la región
En el centro de Argentina, las primeras evidencias de presencia humana, ubicadas entre ca. 13.000 y 10.600 años cal AP, son escasas, mientras que con posterioridad a 9600 años cal AP la señal arqueológica es más intensa. En este último período se ubican los restos humanos recuperados en las localidades de Jesús María y Ascochinga (pcia. de Córdoba, Argentina), motivo de este trabajo. En Jesús María, J. Delprato excavó tres entierros espacialmente…
Gateway to the east
The nature and extent of the Tiwanaku state expansion in the Andes during the second half of the first millennium AD continues to be debated. Here, the authors report on the recent discovery of an archaeological complex 215km south-east of Tiwanaku, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard strongly resembles a Tiwanaku terraced platform temple and demonstrates substantial state investment. Constructed, the authors argu…
Early human foraging paleoecology in the highlands of Potosí, Bolivia
For centuries the Cerro Rico of Potosí in the South American Andes has been known as the richest silver mine in the world but also as a notoriously challenging place for human habitation due to its extreme elevation. Nevertheless, little is known about the temporal depth and socioecological dynamics associated with the initial occupation of this region. In this paper, we present an archaeological and paleoecological assessment of the earliest hum…
Moche chronology of ancient Peru
In the last decade Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates has become commonplace for archaeologists grappling with regional chronologies. Here we present Bayesian analysis for radiocarbon dates from Moche cultural contexts from the north coast of Peru with the aim to understand the duration of the phenomenon and to compile all known dates in a single location for future analysis and use. The analysis demonstrates that the long-standing Moche cera…
Pampa La Cruz
This article describes six sacrificial events carried out during the Late Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Late Horizon at Pampa La Cruz (PLC), located in the Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru. The archaeological context and circumstances in which the children and camelids were sacrificed at PLC are different from the previously investigated site of Huanchaquito – Las Llamas. PLC raises the question of whether the nature and the purpo…
The Bolivian Radiocarbon Database
The radiocarbon dating record from sites in the territory that comprises the Plurinational State of Bolivia has been previously included in datasets that are either obsolete, inaccurate, or incomplete. The Bolivian Radiocarbon Database compiles over three thousand radiocarbon dates produced in the context of archaeological and other paleo-scientific research. By conducting an exhaustive review and correcting various errors from previous regional …
A Review of Archaeological and Paleoecological Radiocarbon Dating in Bolivia
Radiocarbon dating is one of the most useful and widely used chronometric techniques available for archaeologists and other paleo-scientists. Although generally used for answering specific research questions, radiocarbon dates from archaeological sites have become increasingly used to reconstruct population change at meso and macro temporal and spatial scales, and Bayesian modeling of locally and regionally available dates is facilitating interro…
Precipitation variability, vegetation turnover, and anthropogenic disturbance over the last millennium in the Atacama highlands of northern Chile (19°S)
The Late-Holocene history of hydroclimatic variability in the Atacama Desert offers insights into the effects of precipitation and humans on ecosystems in one of the most extremely arid regions of the world. However, understanding the effects of regional precipitation variability in relation to local ecological stressors remains to be fully resolved. Here, we present a pollen-based qualitative precipitation reconstruction derived from fossil rode…
The Geochronological and Geoarchaeological Context of the Clovis-Age La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
The La Prele Mammoth site (48CO1401), located in Converse County, Wyoming, contains a Clovis-age occupation associated with the remains of a subadult mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). In this paper, we present the geochronological and geoarchaeological context of the site. The La Prele Mammoth site is buried in an alluvial terrace of La Prele Creek, a tributary of the North Platte River, which acts as an important migration corridor through the Rocky …
Chinchorro fibre management in the Atacama Desert and its significance for understanding Andean textilization processes
Landscape Engineering Impacts the Long-Term Stability of Agricultural Populations
The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka
Reconstructing the sequence of an Inca Period (1470-1532 CE) camelid sacrifice at El Pacífico, Peru
Animal sacrifice has played an important role as a material expression of the ritual behavior practiced by different societies around the world. In the South American Andes, the ceremonial immolation of llamas is well documented by both ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources. Nevertheless, archaeological evidence of animal sacrifice remains poorly documented. In this paper, we report the burial of two young camelids from El Pacífico, a Formative …
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis
Stable isotope studies have revolutionised our understanding of food webs, subsistence, mobility and their change through time. In the Andes, dietary stable isotopic studies have often focused on timing the adoption of maize as a staple food and identifying camelid pastoralism in selected valleys of the Pacific coast. Few studies have focused on highland societies and understanding pastoralist communities in particular, but the underlying assumpt…
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates
Archaeologists and demographers increasingly employ aggregations of published radiocarbon (14C) dates as demographic proxies summarizing changes in human activity in past societies. Presently, summed probability densities (SPDs) of calibrated radiocarbon dates are the dominant method of using 14C dates to reconstruct demographic trends. Unfortunately, SPDs are incapable of converging on the distribution that generated a set of radiocarbon measure…
Paleoethnobotanical evidence points to agricultural mutualism among early camelid pastoralists of the Andean central Altiplano
Animal Domestication and Pastoralism
Chiripa and the Emergence of Social Complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Early Peopling of the Atacama Desert
Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia
The Archaeology of Andean Pastoralism
IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14 C Calibration Curve for Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Records from Tropical South America
Because the 14 C calibration curves IntCal and SHCal are based on data from temperate latitudes, it remains unclear which curve is more suitable for archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from tropical South America. A review of climate dynamics reveals a significant influx of Northern Hemisphere air masses and moisture over a substantial part of the continent during the South American Summer Monsoon (SASM). Areas affected by the SASM rece…
High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes
The fish of Lake Titicaca
The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America
Mobile Communities and Pastoralist Landscapes During the Formative Period in the Central Altiplano of Bolivia
The domestication of llamas and alpacas was fundamental for the cultural and economic development of Andean societies, but the origins of camelid pastoralism as a distinct mode of socioeconomic organization remain little understood. Whereas most archaeological interpretations of prehispanic highland societies emphasize the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture as a process marked by the establishment of agricultural sedentary villages,…
El Formativo en Tarapacá (3000-1000 aP)
En este trabajo se describen las relaciones que las sociedades humanas establecieron con su entorno durante el período Formativo (3000-1000 aP) en la Pampa del Tamarugal, Desierto de Atacama, desde una perspectiva teórico-metodológica que pone el acento en el potencial del registro ecofactual. Éste, al mediar entre lo cultural y lo ambiental, proporciona información vital para una mejor comprensión de la relación entre naturaleza y cultura constr…
Harsh Environments and the Terminal Pleistocene Peopling of the Andean Highlands
Consumption of animals beyond diet in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (13,000-410BP)
The relations between humans and animals extend into socio-cultural aspects that go beyond the mere acquisition of food, meaning that animals constitute cultural resources that fulfill diverse roles in social and cultural systems. Visual images in different media, including rock art, represent one of the ways in which these complex relationships take place. While in the New World few comparative analyses of archaeofaunal and visual data have been…
End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates
Archaeologists and demographers increasingly employ aggregations of published radiocarbon (14C) dates as demographic proxies summarizing changes in human activity in past societies. Presently, summed probability densities (SPDs) of calibrated radiocarbon dates are the dominant method of using 14C dates to reconstruct demographic trends. Unfortunately, SPDs are incapable of converging on the distribution that generated a set of radiocarbon measure…
Transformations in ritual practice and social interaction on the Tiwanaku periphery
Ritual practices and their associated material paraphernalia played a key role in extending the reach and ideological impact of early states. The discovery of a leather bag containing snuffing tablets and traces of psychoactive substances at Cueva del Chileno in the southern Andes testifies to the adoption of Tiwanaku practices by emergent local elites. Tiwanaku control spread over the whole of the south-central Andes during the Middle Horizon (A…
Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano
Paleoethnobotanical evidence points to agricultural mutualism among early camelid pastoralists of the Andean central Altiplano
Late Pleistocene Lithic Procurement and Geochemical Characterization of the Cerro Kaskio Obsidian Source in South‐western Bolivia
Primary questions regarding the foraging behaviour of the first hunter–gatherers who colonized the New World are how they found, procured and utilized high‐quality raw materials for manufacturing stone tools. In this paper, we present evidence from the late Pleistocene site of Cueva Bautista in the highlands of south‐western Bolivia, which demonstrates that a substantial portion of the recovered stone tool assemblage originated in Cerro Kaskio, a…
From the Pacific to the Tropical Forests
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 supra regional goods and ideas for their social reproduction as suggested by the archaeological evidence contained in several open camps in Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT). Local resources for maintaining their every-day life, included stone raw material, wood, plant and animal…
Tecnología Lítica Y Estrategias De Subsistencia Durante Los Períodos Arcaico Y Formativo en El Altiplano Central, Bolivia
Los cambios producidos en los sistemas de subsistencia de caza-recoleccin al cultivo de plantas y crianza de camlidos constituyen una de las transiciones ms interesantes en la arqueologa del altiplano andino. En este reporte se presentan resultados preliminares del anlisis de patrones de asentamiento y materiales lticos recuperados en la regin de Iroco, el margen noreste del Lago Uru-Uru, en el altiplano central de Bolivia. Los cambios producidos…
The context and meaning of an intact Inca underwater offering from Lake Titicaca
As the Inca Empire expanded across the South American Andes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries AD, Lake Titicaca became its mythical place of origin and the location of a pilgrimage complex on the Island of the Sun. This complex included an underwater reef where stone boxes containing miniature figurines of gold, silver and shell were submerged as ritual offerings. This article reports a newly discovered stone offering box from a reef c…
Análisis Tecno-Tipológico De Instrumentos Líticos Del Sitio Arcaico Temprano Ipilla 2 en Los Andes De Arica, Chile
El estudio de la tecnologa ltica en los Andes se inici con la identificacin tipolgica de puntas de proyectil para definir secuencias cronolgico-culturales de sociedades de cazadores recolectores. Anlisis tecno-tipolgicos como el que se presenta en este trabajo, tratan de mostrar que las morfologas de instrumentos lticos no son estticas pues varan de acuerdo a su uso, mantenimiento y reciclaje. En este estudio, exploramos y caracterizamos la varia…
Gateway to the east
The nature and extent of the Tiwanaku state expansion in the Andes during the second half of the first millennium AD continues to be debated. Here, the authors report on the recent discovery of an archaeological complex 215km south-east of Tiwanaku, where a large, modular building with an integrated, sunken courtyard strongly resembles a Tiwanaku terraced platform temple and demonstrates substantial state investment. Constructed, the authors argu…
Evaluating Dietary Diversity among Andean Central Altiplano Early Camelid Pastoralists Using Stable Isotope Analysis
Stable isotope studies have revolutionised our understanding of food webs, subsistence, mobility and their change through time. In the Andes, dietary stable isotopic studies have often focused on timing the adoption of maize as a staple food and identifying camelid pastoralism in selected valleys of the Pacific coast. Few studies have focused on highland societies and understanding pastoralist communities in particular, but the underlying assumpt…
Pampa La Cruz
This article describes six sacrificial events carried out during the Late Intermediate Period and the beginning of the Late Horizon at Pampa La Cruz (PLC), located in the Moche Valley, North Coast of Peru. The archaeological context and circumstances in which the children and camelids were sacrificed at PLC are different from the previously investigated site of Huanchaquito – Las Llamas. PLC raises the question of whether the nature and the purpo…
Chinchorro fibre management in the Atacama Desert and its significance for understanding Andean textilization processes
Acta de Tarapacá
El “Acta de Tarapacá” constituye un llamado de atención sobre la necesidad de cambiar la manera como las sociedades humanas han estado utilizando el agua en el Desierto de Atacama, mediante una perspectiva histórica a lo largo de milenios. El Acta, una iniciativa que resume los resultados del proyecto CONICYT/PIA Anillo SOC1405 “Cambios Sociales y Variabilidad Climática a Largo Plazo en el Desierto de Atacama”, está dirigida a la sociedad civil y…
A Worldwide Network for Comparative Studies on Caravans
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Arqueología E Identidad Étnica
En Bolivia, el manejo de la arqueologa como un medio de fortalecimiento de identidades tnicas, surge como una demanda social con importantes antecedentes. En este artculo, se presenta un anlisis del desarrollo histrico de la forma en que los resultados de las investigaciones arqueolgicas han sido empleados en el presente. Se observa que en la actualidad, a pesar de una relacin cada vez ms importante entre arquelogos y comunidades locales, la "arq…
La Importancia De Las Plantas Psicotrópicas Para La Economía De Intercambio Y Relaciones De Interacción en El Altiplano Sur Andino
El estudio de las plantas psicotrópicas en las culturas de los Andes recibió considerable atención, especialmente en lo referente a la importancia de su uso como parte de ceremonias y rituales en diversas sociedades andinas. Sin embargo, muy pocos consideran la importancia de éstas y otros productos como parte esencial de relaciones de intercambio entre estas sociedades. El artículo analiza el consumo de dos especies de plantas psicotrópicas (Ana…
Ocupación Inka en La Región Kallawaya
Se presenta un estudio de caso acerca de la ocupacin Inka en la regin perifrica del Tawantinsuyu conocida como Seoro Kallawaya. Especficamente, se concentra en la descripcin de las caractersticas del asentamiento de Maukallajta en las cercanas de Camata as como de otros sitios menores, ubicados en el extremo oriental de la regin Kallawaya (bosques de yungas). Se exponen hiptesis de trabajo utilizando diversas lneas de evidencia (fuentes etnohistr…
Fish remains from the Formative Period (1000 BC–AD 400) of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
The fish of Lake Titicaca
De Memorias e Identidades
Integrated Contextual Approaches to Understanding Past Activities Using Plant and Animal Remains from Kala Uyuni, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Tecnología Lítica Y Estrategias De Subsistencia Durante Los Períodos Arcaico Y Formativo en El Altiplano Central, Bolivia
Los cambios producidos en los sistemas de subsistencia de caza-recoleccin al cultivo de plantas y crianza de camlidos constituyen una de las transiciones ms interesantes en la arqueologa del altiplano andino. En este reporte se presentan resultados preliminares del anlisis de patrones de asentamiento y materiales lticos recuperados en la regin de Iroco, el margen noreste del Lago Uru-Uru, en el altiplano central de Bolivia. Los cambios producidos…
The earliest human occupations in Bolivia
The Economic Organization of Early Camelid Pastoralism in the Andean Highlands of Bolivia
The domestication of South American camelids (llamas and alpacas) transformed the use of the Andean landscape. In the central altiplano of Bolivia, during the Formative Period (1500 BC – AD 500) a cultural complex known as Wankarani developed. This book discusses the development of early camelid pastoralism by testing a set of hypotheses related to Wankarani economic organization. In contrast with previous ideas that suggested the emergence of se…
Fishing and environmental change during the emergence of social complexity in the Lake Titicaca Basin
Local Management of Andean Wetlands in Sajama National Park, Bolivia
Andean wetlands or bofedales are commonly used by indigenous communities for livestock production. Decisions regarding management of bofedales involve the active participation of local people and their social institutions. Consequently, any action addressing emerging challenges must be implemented in coordination and agreement with local actors. This decision process requires an understanding of the local socioeconomic and cultural dynamics, espe…
Mobile Communities and Pastoralist Landscapes During the Formative Period in the Central Altiplano of Bolivia
The domestication of llamas and alpacas was fundamental for the cultural and economic development of Andean societies, but the origins of camelid pastoralism as a distinct mode of socioeconomic organization remain little understood. Whereas most archaeological interpretations of prehispanic highland societies emphasize the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture as a process marked by the establishment of agricultural sedentary villages,…
Transformations in ritual practice and social interaction on the Tiwanaku periphery
Ritual practices and their associated material paraphernalia played a key role in extending the reach and ideological impact of early states. The discovery of a leather bag containing snuffing tablets and traces of psychoactive substances at Cueva del Chileno in the southern Andes testifies to the adoption of Tiwanaku practices by emergent local elites. Tiwanaku control spread over the whole of the south-central Andes during the Middle Horizon (A…
Análisis Tecno-Tipológico De Instrumentos Líticos Del Sitio Arcaico Temprano Ipilla 2 en Los Andes De Arica, Chile
El estudio de la tecnologa ltica en los Andes se inici con la identificacin tipolgica de puntas de proyectil para definir secuencias cronolgico-culturales de sociedades de cazadores recolectores. Anlisis tecno-tipolgicos como el que se presenta en este trabajo, tratan de mostrar que las morfologas de instrumentos lticos no son estticas pues varan de acuerdo a su uso, mantenimiento y reciclaje. En este estudio, exploramos y caracterizamos la varia…
Consumption of animals beyond diet in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (13,000-410BP)
The relations between humans and animals extend into socio-cultural aspects that go beyond the mere acquisition of food, meaning that animals constitute cultural resources that fulfill diverse roles in social and cultural systems. Visual images in different media, including rock art, represent one of the ways in which these complex relationships take place. While in the New World few comparative analyses of archaeofaunal and visual data have been…
High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes
Harsh Environments and the Terminal Pleistocene Peopling of the Andean Highlands
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies in the High Andes of Northern Chile during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Transition (ca. 11,500–9500 CAL B.P.)
The high Andes of western South America feature extreme ecological conditions that impose important physiological constraints on humans including high-elevation hypoxia and cold stress. This leads to questions regarding how these environments were colonized by the first waves of humans that reached them during the late Pleistocene. Based on previous research, and aided by human behavioral ecology principles, we assess hunter-gatherer behavioral s…
Continuities and discontinuities in the socio-environmental systems of the Atacama Desert during the last 13,000 years
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup variation of contemporary mixed South Americans reveals prehistoric displacements linked to archaeologically‐derived culture history
We propose an updated model of South American colonization that is fully compatible with previous studies based on autosomal, mtDNA, and Y chromosome variation and with archaeologically-derived culture history
Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano
The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America
A Worldwide Network for Comparative Studies on Caravans
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Animal Domestication and Pastoralism
Geography (51 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (45 obras) · Archaeology (37 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (30 obras) · Ecology (22 obras) · Biology (20 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (17 obras) · Geology (13 obras) · Art (12 obras) · History (12 obras)