Late pre-Hispanic fog oasis settlements and long-term human occupation on the Peruvian central coast from satellite imagery

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ID3237298
AuthorsG Marcone (0000-0003-0271-0324, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, corresponding author), Geraldine Huertas, James Zimmer-Dauphinee (0000-0003-1489-7747, Vanderbilt University), Parker Vanvalkenburgh (0000-0002-4289-6170), Parker Van Valkenburgh (Brown University), Justin Moat (0000-0002-5513-3615, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), Steven A Wernke (0000-0001-8180-9896, Vanderbilt University)
Year2024
Volume98
Issue397
Pages211-228
Publication date2024-02-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2023.179
OpenAlexW4389895479
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited24

Fog oases (lomas) present pockets of verdant vegetation within the arid coastal desert of Andean South America and archaeological excavation within some of the oases has revealed a long history of human exploitation of these landscapes. Yet lomas settlements are under-represented in archaeological datasets due to their tendency to be located in remote inter-valley areas. Here, the authors employ satellite imagery survey to map the locations of anthropogenic surface features along the central Peruvian coast. They observe two categories of archaeological features, large corrals and clustered structures, and document a concentration of settlement features within lomas landscapes that suggests a pre-Hispanic preference for both short- and long-term occupation of these verdant oases

Archaeology · Arid · Geography · Human settlement · Physical geography · Remote sensing · Satellite imagery · Settlement (finance) · Vegetation (pathology) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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