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2009
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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