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Filtering by: Creator Beresford-Jones, David G.Beresford-Jones, David G. Keyword Peru Resource Type Journal article

2022

Journal article

Insights into changing coastlines, environments and marine hunter-gatherer lifestyles on the Pacific coast of South America from the La Yerba II shell midden, Río Ica estuary, Peru.

Middle Preceramic, Holocene, Shell midden archaeology, Peru, Pacific coast South America, Río Ica Estuary (Peru), Floor surfaces, Relative sea level, Geoarchaeology, and Marine hunter-gatherers
2009

Journal article

The Role of Prosopis in Ecological and Landscape Change in the Samaca Basin, Lower Ica Valley, South Coast Peru from the Early Horizon to the Late Intermediate Period.

The lower Ica Valley on the hyperarid south coast of Peru is today largely depopulated and bereft of cultivation, yet its extensive archaeological remains attest to substantial prehispanic populations. This paper describes archaeological investigations to retrace changes in geomorphology, ecology, and land-use in Samaca, one of the riparian oasis basins...

Early Intermediate Period, Archaeology, Ecological change, Prosopis pallida, Samaca Basin (Peru), Lower Ica Valley (Peru), Prehispanic populations, Landscape change, South Coast Peru, and Peru