The altitude of the depths
Use of inland water archaeology for the reconstruction of inundated cultural landscapes in Lake Titicaca
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3160774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Delaere (0000-0002-6468-7847, Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, corresponding author), Stéphane Guédron (0000-0003-4229-1566, Geochemistry, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IRD, IFSTTAR, ISTerre, Grenoble, France) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 67-83 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243.2022.2077827 |
| OpenAlex | W4283016751 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 40 |
Andean societies have undergone abrupt climate changes that have affected their water resources and habitable or cultivable land. This is the case for Lake Titicaca, which has experienced fluctuations up to 20 metres during the last three millennia. Although paleoenvironmental reconstructions have provided valuable data on these lake level variations, their resolution is often not sufficient to assess their impact at the human time scale of land-use patterns. In this study, we provide a description of recent methodological developments in underwater archaeology that allows great advances in such reconstruction. Our results highlight that the level of the lake rose globally with multiple events of transgression and regression over the last two millennia. We also show that certain abrupt lake variation coincide with major transformations of the societies such as the emergence of the Tiwanaku state in the 6th century during a major transgression
Altitude (triangle · Archaeology · Climate change · Geography · Marine transgression · Physical geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Oceanography · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Paleontology
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Imperial resource management at the ancient Maya city of Tikal
The Rise and Fall of Wiñaymarka
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Spatial and temporal variation in cores from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru during the last 13,000yrs
The Location of Lake Titicaca’s Coastal Area During the Tiwanaku and Inca Periods
The Archaeology of Inundated Cultural Landscapes in Freshwater Lake Systems
The Archaeology of El Niño Events and Other “Natural” Disasters
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| Citations per year | 2.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |