TY - JOUR
T1 - Procurement of camelid fiber in the hyperarid Atacama Desert coast: Insights from stable isotopes
AU - Gayo, Eugenia M
AU - Martens, Tracy
AU - Stuart-Williams, Hilary
AU - Fenner, Jack
AU - Santoro, Calogero M
AU - Carter, Christopher
AU - Cameron, Judith
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Pastoralism and camelid management are traditionally attributed to the sociopolitical, economic and cosmovision of Andean populations, rather than to lowland hunter gatherer societies, living on the Pacific coast where camelid hunting is considered a marginal activity, and husbandry is a difficult enterprise given the hyper-arid conditions of lowland terrestrial ecosystems. Contrary to this interpretative historical view, our stable isotope analyses applied to 48 camelid fiber samples, suggests this highly valued camelid byproduct was obtained from camelids sustained on lomas vegetation formations during the Archaic (ca. 6500-4000 cal yr BP), Formative (ca. 4000-1500 cal yr BP) and Late periods (ca. 660-480 cal yr BP).
AB - Pastoralism and camelid management are traditionally attributed to the sociopolitical, economic and cosmovision of Andean populations, rather than to lowland hunter gatherer societies, living on the Pacific coast where camelid hunting is considered a marginal activity, and husbandry is a difficult enterprise given the hyper-arid conditions of lowland terrestrial ecosystems. Contrary to this interpretative historical view, our stable isotope analyses applied to 48 camelid fiber samples, suggests this highly valued camelid byproduct was obtained from camelids sustained on lomas vegetation formations during the Archaic (ca. 6500-4000 cal yr BP), Formative (ca. 4000-1500 cal yr BP) and Late periods (ca. 660-480 cal yr BP).
U2 - 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.12.008
DO - 10.1016/j.quaint.2019.12.008
M3 - Article
VL - 548
SP - 71
EP - 83
JO - Quaternary International
JF - Quaternary International
SN - 1040-6182
ER -