Luca Sitzia
Biographic Data
| ID | 79078 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca Sitzia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca |
| FAMILY NAME | Sitzia |
| SIGNATURE | SITZIA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tarapacá |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8762-4021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 173 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Breaking ground, beyond the floor assumption
Caleta Huelén-42
Caleta Huelén-42 es uno de los sitios más relevantes para comprender la emergencia de arquitectura y procesos de complejización social de cazadores recolectores marítimos del Desierto de Atacama. A pesar de su importancia, la información estratigráfica y contextual es escasa y difícil de evaluar en las síntesis regionales producto de la interrupción de sus investigaciones hace 50 años. Este trabajo reanuda los estudios del sitio, y se orienta a d…
Bofedales as relational spaces
Various factors have contributed to conceptualizing the altiplano as an “extreme” and hostile upland environment, where niche lifeways such as camelid herding are part of the limited human presence. Consequently, Andean herders are often portrayed as merely exploiting the ostensibly self-sustaining altiplano pastures and peatlands. This viewpoint is reinforced by the low visibility of material culture associated with and derived from pastoralist …
Long-term occupation of bofedales ecosystems by high-Andean hunter-gatherers in the Dry Puna, northern Chile
This project employs a geoarchaeological approach to explore human occupation of the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile (>2500m above sea level) during the Holocene. Differences in the archaeological record of each ecosystem are tentatively suggested to relate to settlement patterns and the history of the landscape
Geomorphology of the Caracota Valley, Western Altiplano, Northern Chile
We present a detailed geomorphological characterisation of the Caracota Valley (18°49′S 69°11′W, 4200–4600 m) in the western Altiplano of Northern Chile. A complex pattern of Pleistocene and Early Holocene glacier activity is responsible for the today's landscape configuration. Wetlands and temporary lakes significantly characterise the Caracota Valley setting providing water sources and storage required for life in this semi-arid landscape. Non-…
Remains of fill and floor? contextual taphonomy in a semi-subterranean structure in the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, Chile
Architectural features and shell-matrix sites are one of the most challenging records for archaeological interpretation, due to their intricate stratification and complex depositional paths. In the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, hunter-gatherer-fisher developed standardized stone-built architectural features mostly built on or directly related to shell-matrix deposits during the Late Archaic period (5700 – 4000 cal. years B.P.). These str…
Tracking kelp-type seaweed fuel in the archaeological record through Raman spectroscopy of charred particles
South American geoarchaeology
In this special issue, articles include research from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay, plus a special paper from the United States of America. Several of the articles are from Chilean scientists and/or focus on Chilean geoarchaeology and are intended to reflect the spirit of the symposium carried out during the Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena 2018 (National Chilean Archaeology Conference). The topics, techniques, and rese…
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation
Hunter‐gatherer architectural practices are one of the main sources of data to understand the complex land use of these societies. In the hyperarid Atacama Desert coast (Northern Chile), hunter‐gatherers‐fishers developed standardized stone‐built architecture during the Late Archaic period (∼5,700–4,000 cal years BP), interpreted so far as sedentary villages or long‐term campsites. Nevertheless, the lack of site formation process studies and syst…
Procesos de formación de conjuntos líticos
El registro arqueológico lítico de superficie se encuentra expuesto a diversos agentes postdepositacionales, que desencadenan una serie de modificaciones que son parte de los procesos de formación de los conjuntos que hallamos. El estudio de estas modificaciones brinda información indispensable a la hora de proponer interpretaciones conductuales sobre los grupos humanos del pasado. En este trabajo se destaca la relevancia que tiene la aplicación …
A perched, high-elevation wetland complex in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) and its implications for past human settlement
A previously undocumented type of wetland is described from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile (3000 m above sea level), sustained exclusively by direct precipitation and perched above the regional water table. Geomorphological mapping, pedostratigraphy, geochemistry, and analysis of contemporary vegetation is used to understand wetland formation and dynamics during historical and present time periods. The paleowetland deposits overlie a Miocen…
The open-air site of Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et-Garonne)
The recently discovered open-air site of Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et Garonne) lies on a gentle incline of the left bank of the Aveyron River approximately 100 metres from the site of Mirande 1 (Nègrepelisse, Tarn-et-Garonne), which was excavated between 1971 and 1976 by R. Guicharnaud. A test-pit carried out during rescue work evaluated the site’s potential, provided important geological data and produced diagnostic archaeological material. The t…
Le site de plein air de Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et-Garonne)
Le gisement de plein air de Mirande 2 a été récemment découvert sur la commune de Vaïssac (Tarn-et-Garonne), à une centaine de mètres du site de Mirande 1 fouillé entre 1971 et 1976 par R. Guicharnaud à Nègrepelisse. Cette opération de sondage préventif a permis d’évaluer les potentialités du site, d’en proposer une contextualisation géologique précise et d’exhumer les divers éléments de diagnose présentés ici. Mirande 2 est implanté sur un léger…
La Honteyre (Le Tuzan, Gironde)
La partie centre-ouest du Bassin aquitain est caractérisée par une vaste couverture sableuse, aujourd’hui recouverte par la forêt des Landes de Gascogne. Cet espace correspond à un véritable erg sableux, dont la formation remonte au début du Quaternaire. Au cours du Tardiglaciaire, le Sable des Landes constitue déjà une grande unité naturelle au sein du Sud-Ouest de la France. Quel a été l’impact de ce désert sur la mobilité et les réseaux d’écha…
Recent Laborian of the Peyrazet cave-rock shelter (Creysse, Lot, France). New data for the end of Lateglacial in Quercy
Découverte en 1990, la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France) se situe dans le Haut-Quercy en bordure du causse de Martel, à quelques centaines de mètres du cours actuel de la Dordogne. Les fouilles menées depuis 2008 livrent une archéoséquence du Tardiglaciaire qui permet de combler certaines lacunes documentaires régionales et plus largement du Sud-Ouest de la France. Au Magdalénien supérieur succède un niveau ayant donné des indices d’…
Le Laborien récent de la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France). Nouvelles données pour la fin du Tardiglaciaire en Quercy
Découverte en 1990, la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France) se situe dans le Haut-Quercy en bordure du causse de Martel, à quelques centaines de mètres du cours actuel de la Dordogne. Les fouilles menées depuis 2008 livrent une archéoséquence du Tardiglaciaire qui permet de combler certaines lacunes documentaires régionales et plus largement du Sud-Ouest de la France. Au Magdalénien supérieur succède un niveau ayant donné des indices d’…
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France)
Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic
The Paleoenvironment and Lithic Taphonomy of S hi’ B at D ihya 1, a Middle Paleolithic Site in W adi S urdud, Y emen
The S hi'bat D ihya 1 site in western Y emen, dated by optically stimulated luminescence to 55 ka, provides insight into the M iddle P aleolithic peopling of the A rabian P eninsula. The archaeological layer is interstratified within thick, sandy silt floodplain deposits filling a piedmont basin. Luminescence dates, lack of soil development, and gypsum precipitation indicate a high accretion rate of the floodplain during M arine I sotope S tage 3…
Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen
Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen
Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France)
The Paleoenvironment and Lithic Taphonomy of S hi’ B at D ihya 1, a Middle Paleolithic Site in W adi S urdud, Y emen
The S hi'bat D ihya 1 site in western Y emen, dated by optically stimulated luminescence to 55 ka, provides insight into the M iddle P aleolithic peopling of the A rabian P eninsula. The archaeological layer is interstratified within thick, sandy silt floodplain deposits filling a piedmont basin. Luminescence dates, lack of soil development, and gypsum precipitation indicate a high accretion rate of the floodplain during M arine I sotope S tage 3…
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation
Hunter‐gatherer architectural practices are one of the main sources of data to understand the complex land use of these societies. In the hyperarid Atacama Desert coast (Northern Chile), hunter‐gatherers‐fishers developed standardized stone‐built architecture during the Late Archaic period (∼5,700–4,000 cal years BP), interpreted so far as sedentary villages or long‐term campsites. Nevertheless, the lack of site formation process studies and syst…
Tracking kelp-type seaweed fuel in the archaeological record through Raman spectroscopy of charred particles
Long-term occupation of bofedales ecosystems by high-Andean hunter-gatherers in the Dry Puna, northern Chile
This project employs a geoarchaeological approach to explore human occupation of the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile (>2500m above sea level) during the Holocene. Differences in the archaeological record of each ecosystem are tentatively suggested to relate to settlement patterns and the history of the landscape
Remains of fill and floor? contextual taphonomy in a semi-subterranean structure in the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, Chile
Architectural features and shell-matrix sites are one of the most challenging records for archaeological interpretation, due to their intricate stratification and complex depositional paths. In the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, hunter-gatherer-fisher developed standardized stone-built architectural features mostly built on or directly related to shell-matrix deposits during the Late Archaic period (5700 – 4000 cal. years B.P.). These str…
The Paleoenvironment and Lithic Taphonomy of S hi’ B at D ihya 1, a Middle Paleolithic Site in W adi S urdud, Y emen
The S hi'bat D ihya 1 site in western Y emen, dated by optically stimulated luminescence to 55 ka, provides insight into the M iddle P aleolithic peopling of the A rabian P eninsula. The archaeological layer is interstratified within thick, sandy silt floodplain deposits filling a piedmont basin. Luminescence dates, lack of soil development, and gypsum precipitation indicate a high accretion rate of the floodplain during M arine I sotope S tage 3…
Inland human settlement in southern Arabia 55,000 years ago. New evidence from the Wadi Surdud Middle Paleolithic site complex, western Yemen
The Landes de Gascogne (southwest France)
Cultural and human dynamics in southern Arabia at the end of the Middle Paleolithic
Recent Laborian of the Peyrazet cave-rock shelter (Creysse, Lot, France). New data for the end of Lateglacial in Quercy
Découverte en 1990, la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France) se situe dans le Haut-Quercy en bordure du causse de Martel, à quelques centaines de mètres du cours actuel de la Dordogne. Les fouilles menées depuis 2008 livrent une archéoséquence du Tardiglaciaire qui permet de combler certaines lacunes documentaires régionales et plus largement du Sud-Ouest de la France. Au Magdalénien supérieur succède un niveau ayant donné des indices d’…
Le Laborien récent de la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France). Nouvelles données pour la fin du Tardiglaciaire en Quercy
Découverte en 1990, la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France) se situe dans le Haut-Quercy en bordure du causse de Martel, à quelques centaines de mètres du cours actuel de la Dordogne. Les fouilles menées depuis 2008 livrent une archéoséquence du Tardiglaciaire qui permet de combler certaines lacunes documentaires régionales et plus largement du Sud-Ouest de la France. Au Magdalénien supérieur succède un niveau ayant donné des indices d’…
The open-air site of Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et-Garonne)
The recently discovered open-air site of Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et Garonne) lies on a gentle incline of the left bank of the Aveyron River approximately 100 metres from the site of Mirande 1 (Nègrepelisse, Tarn-et-Garonne), which was excavated between 1971 and 1976 by R. Guicharnaud. A test-pit carried out during rescue work evaluated the site’s potential, provided important geological data and produced diagnostic archaeological material. The t…
Le site de plein air de Mirande 2 (Vaïssac, Tarn-et-Garonne)
Le gisement de plein air de Mirande 2 a été récemment découvert sur la commune de Vaïssac (Tarn-et-Garonne), à une centaine de mètres du site de Mirande 1 fouillé entre 1971 et 1976 par R. Guicharnaud à Nègrepelisse. Cette opération de sondage préventif a permis d’évaluer les potentialités du site, d’en proposer une contextualisation géologique précise et d’exhumer les divers éléments de diagnose présentés ici. Mirande 2 est implanté sur un léger…
La Honteyre (Le Tuzan, Gironde)
La partie centre-ouest du Bassin aquitain est caractérisée par une vaste couverture sableuse, aujourd’hui recouverte par la forêt des Landes de Gascogne. Cet espace correspond à un véritable erg sableux, dont la formation remonte au début du Quaternaire. Au cours du Tardiglaciaire, le Sable des Landes constitue déjà une grande unité naturelle au sein du Sud-Ouest de la France. Quel a été l’impact de ce désert sur la mobilité et les réseaux d’écha…
A perched, high-elevation wetland complex in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) and its implications for past human settlement
A previously undocumented type of wetland is described from the Atacama Desert in northern Chile (3000 m above sea level), sustained exclusively by direct precipitation and perched above the regional water table. Geomorphological mapping, pedostratigraphy, geochemistry, and analysis of contemporary vegetation is used to understand wetland formation and dynamics during historical and present time periods. The paleowetland deposits overlie a Miocen…
Procesos de formación de conjuntos líticos
El registro arqueológico lítico de superficie se encuentra expuesto a diversos agentes postdepositacionales, que desencadenan una serie de modificaciones que son parte de los procesos de formación de los conjuntos que hallamos. El estudio de estas modificaciones brinda información indispensable a la hora de proponer interpretaciones conductuales sobre los grupos humanos del pasado. En este trabajo se destaca la relevancia que tiene la aplicación …
South American geoarchaeology
In this special issue, articles include research from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay, plus a special paper from the United States of America. Several of the articles are from Chilean scientists and/or focus on Chilean geoarchaeology and are intended to reflect the spirit of the symposium carried out during the Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena 2018 (National Chilean Archaeology Conference). The topics, techniques, and rese…
Ritual stone‐built architecture and shell midden foundation
Hunter‐gatherer architectural practices are one of the main sources of data to understand the complex land use of these societies. In the hyperarid Atacama Desert coast (Northern Chile), hunter‐gatherers‐fishers developed standardized stone‐built architecture during the Late Archaic period (∼5,700–4,000 cal years BP), interpreted so far as sedentary villages or long‐term campsites. Nevertheless, the lack of site formation process studies and syst…
Remains of fill and floor? contextual taphonomy in a semi-subterranean structure in the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, Chile
Architectural features and shell-matrix sites are one of the most challenging records for archaeological interpretation, due to their intricate stratification and complex depositional paths. In the hyperarid coast of the Atacama Desert, hunter-gatherer-fisher developed standardized stone-built architectural features mostly built on or directly related to shell-matrix deposits during the Late Archaic period (5700 – 4000 cal. years B.P.). These str…
Tracking kelp-type seaweed fuel in the archaeological record through Raman spectroscopy of charred particles
Geomorphology of the Caracota Valley, Western Altiplano, Northern Chile
We present a detailed geomorphological characterisation of the Caracota Valley (18°49′S 69°11′W, 4200–4600 m) in the western Altiplano of Northern Chile. A complex pattern of Pleistocene and Early Holocene glacier activity is responsible for the today's landscape configuration. Wetlands and temporary lakes significantly characterise the Caracota Valley setting providing water sources and storage required for life in this semi-arid landscape. Non-…
Long-term occupation of bofedales ecosystems by high-Andean hunter-gatherers in the Dry Puna, northern Chile
This project employs a geoarchaeological approach to explore human occupation of the highland wetlands (bofedales) and salt flats of the Dry Puna of northern Chile (>2500m above sea level) during the Holocene. Differences in the archaeological record of each ecosystem are tentatively suggested to relate to settlement patterns and the history of the landscape
Breaking ground, beyond the floor assumption
Caleta Huelén-42
Caleta Huelén-42 es uno de los sitios más relevantes para comprender la emergencia de arquitectura y procesos de complejización social de cazadores recolectores marítimos del Desierto de Atacama. A pesar de su importancia, la información estratigráfica y contextual es escasa y difícil de evaluar en las síntesis regionales producto de la interrupción de sus investigaciones hace 50 años. Este trabajo reanuda los estudios del sitio, y se orienta a d…
Bofedales as relational spaces
Various factors have contributed to conceptualizing the altiplano as an “extreme” and hostile upland environment, where niche lifeways such as camelid herding are part of the limited human presence. Consequently, Andean herders are often portrayed as merely exploiting the ostensibly self-sustaining altiplano pastures and peatlands. This viewpoint is reinforced by the low visibility of material culture associated with and derived from pastoralist …
Geography (16 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 works) · Paleontology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (4 works)