Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T02:01:59.011Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

In-stream wetland deposits, megadroughts, and cultural change in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2019

Craig D. Tully ,
Jason A. Rech ,
T. Race Workman ,
Calogero M. Santoro ,
José M. Capriles ,
Eugenia M. Gayo  and
Claudio Latorre
Craig D. Tully
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA
Jason A. Rech*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA
T. Race Workman
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA
Calogero M. Santoro
Affiliation:
Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Antofagasta1520, Arica 00236, Chile
José M. Capriles
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, USA
Eugenia M. Gayo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Oceanografia, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción 4070386, Chile Center for Climate Change and Resilience Research (CR2), Santiago 8370415, Chile
Claudio Latorre
Affiliation:
Centro UC del Desierto de Atacama & Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago 6513677, Chile Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity (IEB), Casilla 653, Santiago 6513677, Chile
*
*Corresponding author at: Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 45056, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (J.A. Rech).
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

A key concern regarding current and future climate change is the possibility of sustained droughts that can have profound impacts on societies. As such, multiple paleoclimatic proxies are needed to identify megadroughts, the synoptic climatology responsible for these droughts, and their impacts on past and future societies. In the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile, many streams are characterized by perennial flow and support dense in-stream wetlands. These streams possess sequences of wetland deposits as fluvial terraces that record past changes in the water table. We mapped and radiocarbon dated a well-preserved sequence of in-stream wetland deposits along a 4.3-km reach of the Río San Salvador in the Calama basin to determine the relationship between regional climate change and the incision of in-stream wetlands. The Río San Salvador supported dense wetlands from 11.1 to 9.8, 6.4 to 3.5, 2.8 to 1.3, and 1.0 to 0.5 ka and incised at the end of each of these intervals. Comparison with other in-stream wetland sequences in the Atacama Desert, and with regional paleoclimatic archives, indicates that in-stream wetlands responded similarly to climatic changes by incising during periods of extended drought at ~9.8, 3.5, 1.3, and 0.5 ka.

Keywords

AtacamaIn-stream wetlandsChileMegadroughtsClimate and cultural change
Type
Thematic Set: Drylands
Information
Quaternary Research , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 63 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © University of Washington. Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Adán, L., Urbina, S., Pellegrino, C., Agüero, C., 2013. Aldeas en los bosques de prosopis. Arquitectura residencial y congregacional en el período Formativo tarapaqueño (900 AC-900 DC). Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas 45, 75–94.Google Scholar
Agüero, C., 2005. Aproximación al asentamiento humano temprano en los oasis de San Pedro de Atacama. Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas 30, 29–60.Google Scholar
Antevs, E., 1952. Arroyo-cutting and filling. Journal of Geology 60, 375–385.Google Scholar
Baker, P.A., Fritz, S.C., 2015. Nature and causes of Quaternary climate variation of tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 124, 31–47.Google Scholar
Betancourt, J.L., Latorre, C., Rech, J.A., Quade, J., Rylander, K.A., 2000. A 22,000-year record of monsoonal precipitation from Northern Chile’s Atacama Desert. Science 289, 1542–1546.Google Scholar
Briones, L., Núñez, L., Standen, V.G., 2005. Geoglifos y tráfico prehispánico de caravanas de llamas en el desierto de Atacama (norte de Chile). Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 37, 195–223.Google Scholar
Bryan, K., 1941. Pre-Columbian Agriculture in the South-west, as Conditioned by Periods of Alluviation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 31, 219–242.Google Scholar
Cabello, G., Gallardo, F., 2014. Iconos claves del Formativo en Tarapacá (Chile): El arte rupestre de Tamentica y su distribución regional. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 46, 11–24.Google Scholar
Capriles, J.M., LombardoAlbarracin-Jordan, J. Albarracin-Jordan, J., Daniela Osorio, U., Herrera, K.A., Maley, B., Goldstein, S.T., Domic, A.I., Glascock, M.D., Veit, H., Santoro, C.M., 2016. High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes. Journal of Archaeological Science, Report 6, 463–474.Google Scholar
Castillo, C., Sepúlveda, M., 2017. Objetos “misceláneos” y dinámicas sociales en contextos cazadores recolectores de la precordillera de Arica, extremo norte de Chile. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 49, 159–174.Google Scholar
Castro, L., 2004. Recursos hídricos altoandinos, estrategias de desarrollo económico y proyectos de riego: Tarapacá, 1880-1930. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena 36, 205–220.Google Scholar
Castro, V., Berenguer, J., Gallardo, F., Llagostera, A., Salazar, D., 2016. Vertiente occidental circumpuneña. Desde las sociedades post arcaicas hasta las preincas (ca. 1500 a.c. - 1470 d.c.) In: Aldunate, C., Falabella, F., Sanhueza, L., Hidalgo, J., Uribe, M. (Eds.), Prehistoria en Chile desde sus Primeros Habitantes hasta los Incas. Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, pp. 239–283.Google Scholar
Cook, E.R., Anchukaitis, K.J., Buckley, B.M., D’Arrigo, R.D., Jacoby, G.C., Wright, W.E., 2010. Asian monsoon failure and megadrought during the last millennium. Science 328, 486–489.Google Scholar
Cook, E.R., Seager, R., Cane, M.A., Stahle, D.W., 2007. North American drought: Reconstructions, causes, and consequences. Earth Science Reviews 81, 93–134.Google Scholar
Cooley, M.E., 1962. Late Pleistocene and recent erosion and alluviation in parts of the Colorado River system, Arizona and Utah. Geological Survey Research 1962: Short Papers in Geology, Hydrology, and Topography, Articles 1–59’, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper, Washington DC.Google Scholar
CR2, 2015. La megasequía 2010-2015: Una lección para el futuro. Center for Climate and Resilience Research, 28.Google Scholar
Cullen, H.M., deMenocal, P.B., Hemming, S., Hemming, G., Brown, F.H., Guilderson, T., Sirocko, F., 2000. Climate change and the collapse of the Akkadian empire: Evidence from the deep sea. Geology 28, 379–382.Google Scholar
Dai, A., 2011. Drought under global warming: a review. Climate Change 2, 45–65.Google Scholar
de Porras, M.E., Maldonado, A., De Pol-Holz, R., Latorre, C., Betancourt, J.L., 2017. Late Quaternary environmental dynamics in the Atacama Desert reconstructed from rodent midden pollen records. Journal of Quaternary Science 32, 665–684.Google Scholar
deMenocal, P.B., 2001. Cultural responses to climate change during the Late Holocene. Science 292, 667–673.Google Scholar
Dirección General de Aguas (DGA), 2012. Diagnóstico plan estratégico para la gestión de los recursos hídricos, región de Antofagasta, Gobierno de chile, Santiago, Chile, p. 319.Google Scholar
Elliott, J.G., Gellis, A.C., Aby, S.B., 1999. Evolution of arroyos: Incised channels of the Southwestern United States, In: Darby, S.E., Simon, A. (Eds.), Incised Channels: Processes, Forms, Engineering, and Management. John Wiley & Sons Inc, Chichester, United Kingdom, pp. 153–186.Google Scholar
Euler, R.C., Gumerman, G.J., Karlstrom, T.N.V., Dean, J.S., Hevly, R.H., 1979. The Colorado Plateaus: Cultural dynamics and paleoenvironment. Science 205, 1089–1101.Google Scholar
Fawcett, P.J., Werne, J.P., Anderson, R.S., Heikoop, J.M., Brown, E.T., Berke, M.A., Smith, S.J., Goff, F., Donohoo-Hurley, L., Cisneros-Dozal, L.M., Schouten, S., Damasté, J.S.S., Huang, Y., Toney, J., Fessenden, J., WoldeGabriel, G., Atudorei, V., Geissman, J.W., Allen, C.D., 2011. Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature 470, 518–521.Google Scholar
Forman, S.L., Marin, L., Gomez, J., Pierson, J., 2008. Late Quaternary eolian sand depositional record for southwestern Kansas: Landscape sensitivity to droughts. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 265, 107–120.Google Scholar
Forman, S.L., Oglesby, R., Webb, R.S., 2001. Temporal and spatial patterns of Holocene dune activity on the Great Plains of North America: megadroughts and climate links. Global and Planetary Change 29, 1–29.Google Scholar
Gallardo, F., Correa, I., Pimentel, G., Blanco, J.F., 2017. Consumption consumes: circulation, exchange, and value of San Pedro de Atacama black polished ceramics. Latin American Antiquity 28, 252–268.Google Scholar
Garreaud, R.D., 1999. Multiscale analysis of the summertime precipitation over the central Andes. Monthly Weather Review 127, 900–921.Google Scholar
Garreaud, R.D., Molina, A., Farias, M., 2010. Andean uplift, ocean cooling and Atacama hyperaridity: A climate modeling perspective. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 292, 39–50.Google Scholar
Garreaud, R., Alvarez-Garreton, C., Barichivich, J., Boisier, J.P., Christie, D., Galleguillos, M., LeQuesne, C., et al. 2017. The 2010–2015 megadrought in central Chile: impacts on regional hydroclimate and vegetation. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 21, 6307–6327.Google Scholar
Garreaud, R.D., Vuille, M., Clement, A.C., 2003. The climate of the Altiplano; observed current conditions and mechanisms of past changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 194, 5–22.Google Scholar
Gayo, E.M., Latorre, C., Jordan, T.E., Nester, P.L., Estay, S.A., Ojeda, K.F., Santoro, C.M., 2012a. Late Quaternary hydrological and ecological change in the hyperarid core of the northern Atacama Desert (~21˚S). Earth Science Reviews 113, 120–140.Google Scholar
Gayo, E.M., Latorre, C., Santoro, C.M., 2015. Timing of occupation and regional settlement patterns revealed by time-series analyses of an archaeological radiocarbon database for the South-Central Andes (16°–25° S). Quaternary International 356, 4–14.Google Scholar
Gayo, E.M., Latorre, C., Santoro, C.M., Maldonado, A., De Pol-Holz, R., 2012b. Hydroclimate variability on centennial timescales in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2,500 years. Climate of the Past 8, 287–306.Google Scholar
Geyh, M.A., Grosjean, M., Nunez, L., Schotterer, U., 1999. Radiocarbon reservoir effect and the timing of the late-glacial/early Holocene humid phase in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile). Quaternary Research 52, 143–153.Google Scholar
Gleick, P.H., 2014. Water, Drought, Climate Change, and Conflict in Syria. Weather Climate and Society 6, 331–340.Google Scholar
González-Silvestre, L., Maldonado, A., Núñez, L., Cartajena, I., Carrasco, C., de Souza, P., 2013. Condiciones paleovegetacionales y asentamientos humanos durante el Formativo temprano: análisis de polen del sitio Tulán-85 (1.530/1.260-460/420 años cal. a.c.), cuenca del Salar de Atacama. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 45, 387–410.Google Scholar
Grosjean, M., Nunez, L., Cartajena, I., Messerli, B., 1997. Mid-holocene climate and culture change in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Quaternary Research 48, 239–246.Google Scholar
Grosjean, M., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., van der Knaap, W.O., Geyh, M.A., Ammann, B., Tanner, W., Messerli, B., Nunez, L.A., Valero-Garces, B.L., Veit, H., 2001. A 22,000 C-14 year BP sediment and pollen record of climate change from Laguna Miscanti (23 degrees S), northern Chile. Global and Planetary Change 28, 35–51.Google Scholar
Hall, S.A., 1977. Late quaternary sedimentation and paleo-ecologic history of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Geological Society of America Bulletin 88, 1593–1618.Google Scholar
Haynes, V.M., 1968. The influence of glacial erosion and rock structure on corries in Scotland. Geografiska Annaler. Series A, Physical Geography 50, 221–234.Google Scholar
Hereford, R., 2002. Valley-fill alluviation during the Little Ice Age (ca. A.D. 1400–1880), Paria River basin and southern Colorado Plateau, United States. GSA Bulletin 114, 1550–1563.Google Scholar
Hidalgo Lehuedé, J., 2014. Historia andina en Chile, vol. II: políticas imperiales, dinámicas regionales y sociedades indígenas. Editorial Universitaria, Santiago.Google Scholar
Hogg, A.G., Hua, Q., Blackwell, P.G., Niu, M., Buck, C.E., Guilderson, T.P., Heaton, T.J., Palmer, J.G., Reimer, P.J., Reimer, R.W., Turney, C.S.M., Zimmerman, S.R.H., 2013. SHCAL13 Southern Hemisphere calibration, 0-50,000 years CAL BP. Radiocarbon 55, 1889–1903.Google Scholar
Houston, J., 2005. The great Atacama flood of 2001 and its implications for Andean hydrology. Hydrological Processes 20, 591–610.Google Scholar
Houston, J., 2006. Variability of precipitation in the Atacama Desert: Its causes and hydrological impact. International Journal of Climatology 26, 2181–2198.Google Scholar
Houston, J., Hartley, A.J., 2003. The central Andean west-slope rainshadow and its potential contribution to the origin of hyper-aridity in the Atacama Desert. International Journal of Climatology 23, 1453–1464.Google Scholar
Hsiang, S.M., Burke, M., Miguel, E., 2013. Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict. Science 341, 1212–+.Google Scholar
Karlstrom, T.N.V., 1988. Alluvial chronology and hydrologic change of Black Mesa and nearby regions, In: Gumerman, G.J. (Ed.), The Anasazi in a Changing Environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 45–91.Google Scholar
Kaufman, D.S., Manley, W.F., 1998. A new procedure for determining DL amino acid ratios in fossils using reverse phase liquid chromatography. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 987–1000.Google Scholar
Kelley, C.P., Mohtadi, S., Cane, M.A., Seager, R., Kushnir, Y., 2015. Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought. Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences 112, 3241–3246.Google Scholar
Kosnik, M.A., Kaufman, D.S., Hua, Q., 2008. Identifying outliers and assessing the accuracy of amino acid racemization measurements for geochronology: I. Age calibration curves. Quaternary Geochronology 3, 308–327.Google Scholar
Latorre, C., Betancourt, J.L., Arroyo, M.T.K., 2006. Late Quaternary vegetation and climate history of a perennial river canyon in the Rio Salado basin (22 degrees S) of Northern Chile. Quaternary Research 65, 450–466.Google Scholar
Latorre, C., Betancourt, J.L., Rylander, K.A., Quade, J., 2002. Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45 000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama-Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22 degrees-24 degrees S). Geological Society of America Bulletin 114, 349–366.Google Scholar
Latorre, C., Santoro, C.M., Ugalde, P.C., Gayo, E.M., Osorio, D., Salas-Egana, C., De Pol-Holz, R., Joly, D., Rech, J.A., 2013. Late Pleistocene human occupation of the hyperarid core in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews 77, 19–30.Google Scholar
Lenters, J.D., Cook, K.H., 1997. On the origin of the Bolivian high and related circulation features of the South American climate. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 54, 656–677.Google Scholar
Lenters, J.D., Cook, K.H., 1999. Summertime precipitation variability over South America: Role of the large-scale circulation. Monthly Weather Review 127, 409–431.Google Scholar
Maldonado, A., Uribe, M., 2015. Paleoambientes y ocupaciones humanas en Tarapacá durante el período Formativo y comienzos del Intermedio Tardío, Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena. Universidad de Tarapacá, Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología, Arica, pp. 193–200.Google Scholar
Marquet, P.A., Santoro, C.M., Latorre, C., Standen, V.G., Abades, S.R., Rivadeneira, M.M., Arriaza, B., Hochberg, M.E., 2012. Emergence of social complexity among coastal hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109, 14754–14760.Google Scholar
Martin, P.S., 1963. Early man in Arizona: The pollen evidence. American Antiquity 29, 67–73.Google Scholar
McKay, C.P., Friedman, E.I., Gomez-Silva, B., Caceres-Villanueva, L., Andersen, D.T., 2003. Temperature and moisture conditions of life in the extreme arid region in of the Atacama Desert: four years of observations including the El Nino of 1997-1998. Astrobiology 3, 393–406.Google Scholar
McRostie, V.B., 2014. Arboricultura y silvopastoralismo en el período Formativo (1.400 a.c.-500 d.C.) de la cuenca del Salar de Atacama. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 46, 543–557.Google Scholar
McRostie, V.B., Gayo, Eugenia M., Santoro, Calogero M., Pol-Holz, Ricardo De, Latorre, C., 2017. The pre-Columbian introduction and dispersal of Algarrobo (Prosopis, Section Algarobia) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. PlosOne 12, e0181759.Google Scholar
Metcalfe, S.E., Jones, M.D., Davies, S.J., Noren, A., MacKenzie, A., 2010. Climate variability over the last two millennia in the North American Monsoon region, recorded in laminated lake sediments from Laguna de Juanacatlan, Mexico. Holocene 20, 1195–1206.Google Scholar
Milly, P.C.D., Betancourt, J.L., Falkenmark, M., Hirsch, R.M., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Lettenmaier, D.P., Stouffer, R.J., 2008. Stationarity is dead: Whither water management? . Science 319, 573–574.Google Scholar
Minvielle, M., Garreaud, R.D., 2011. Projecting Rainfall Changes over the South American Altiplano. Journal of Climate 24, 4577–4583.Google Scholar
Morgan, C., Pomerleau, M.M., 2012. New evidence for extreme and persistent terminal medieval drought in California’s Sierra Nevada. Journal of Paleolimnology 47, 707–713.Google Scholar
Moy, C.M., Seltzer, G.O., Rodbell, D.T., Anderson, D.M., 2002. Variability of El Nino/Southern Oscillation activity at millennial timescales during the Holocene epoch. Nature 420, 162–165.Google Scholar
Mujica, M.I., Latorre, C., Maldonado, A., González-Silvestre, L., Pinto, R., De Pol-Holz, R., Santoro, C.M., 2015. Late Quaternary climate change, relict populations and present-day refugia in the northern Atacama Desert: a case study from Quebrada La Higuera (18°S). Journal of Biogeography 42, 76–88.Google Scholar
Nelson, D.B., Abbott, M.B., Steinman, B., Polissar, P.J., Stansell, N.D., Ortiz, J.D., Rosenmeier, M.F., Finney, B.P., Riedel, J., 2011. Drought variability in the Pacific Northwest from a 6,000-yr lake sediment record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 3870–3875.Google Scholar
Nester, P.L., Gayo, E., Latorre, C., Jordan, T.E., Blanco, N., 2007. Perennial stream discharge in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of northern Chile during the latest Pleistocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104, 19724–19729.Google Scholar
Núñez, L., 1979. Emergencia y desintegración de la sociedad tarapaqueña: riqueza y pobreza en una quebrada del norte chileno. Atenea 439, 163–213.Google Scholar
Núñez, L., Cartajena, I., Carrasco, C., de Souza, P., Grosjean, M., 2006. Emergencia de comunidades pastoralistas formativas en el sureste de la puna de Atacama. Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas 32, 93–117.Google Scholar
Nunez, L., Cartajena, I., Grosjean, M., 2013. Archaeological silence and ecorefuges: Arid events in the Puna of Atacama during the Middle Holocene. Quaternary International 307, 5–13.Google Scholar
Núñez, L., Jackson, D., Santoro, C.M., Méndez, C., 2016. Cazadores-recolectores tempranos y los primeros poblamientos en Chile hacia finales del Pleistoceno (ca.13.000-10.000 años antes del presente), In: Aldunate, C., Falabella, F., Sanhueza, L., Hidalgo J., Uribe, M. (Eds.), Prehistoria en Chile desde sus Primeros Habitantes hasta los Incas. Editorial Universitaria, Santiago, p. 71–116.Google Scholar
Nuñez, L., Santoro, C.M., 1988. Cazadores de la Puna Seca y Salada del Area Centro Sur Andina (norte de Chile). Estudios Atacameños 9, 13–65.Google Scholar
Núñez, L., Santoro, C.M., 2011. El tránsito Arcaico-Formativo en la circunpuna y valles occidentales del Centro Sur Andino: hacia los cambios “neolíticos”. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 43, 487–531.Google Scholar
Osorio, D., Capriles, J.M., Ugalde, P.C., Herrera, K.A., Sepúlveda, M., Gayó, E.M., Latorre, C., Jackson, D., De Pol Holz, R., Santoro, C.M., 2017. Hunter-gatherer mobility strategies in the high Andes of northern Chile during the late Pleistocene-early Holocene transition (ca. 11,500-9,500 cal B.P.). Journal of Field Archaeology 17, 228–240.Google Scholar
Patton, P.C., Boison, P.J., 1986. Processes and rates of formation of Holocene alluvial terraces in Harris Wash, Escalante River basin, south-central Utah. GSA Bulletin 97, 369–378.Google Scholar
Patton, P.C., Schumm, S.A., 1985. Ephemeral-stream processes: Implications for studies of quaternary valley fills. Quaternary Research 15, 24–43.Google Scholar
Pimentel, G., Montt, I., 2008. Tarapacá en Atacama. Arte rupestre y relaciones intersocietales entre el 900 y 1450 DC. Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 13, 35–50.Google Scholar
Placzek, C.J., Quade, J., Patchett, P.J., 2013. A 130 ka reconstruction of rainfall on the Bolivian Altiplano. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 363, 97–108.Google Scholar
Prosser, I.P., Slade, C.J., 1994a. Gully formation and the role of valley-floor vegetation, southeastern Australia. Geology 22, 1127–1130.Google Scholar
Prosser, I.P., Slade, C.J., 1994b. Gully formation and the role of valley-floor vegetation, southeastern australia. Geology 22, 1127–1130.Google Scholar
Prosser, I.P., Winchester, S.J., 1996. History and processes of gully initiation and development in eastern Australia. Zeitschrift fuer Geomorphologie 105, 343–360.Google Scholar
Quade, J., Rech, J.A., Betancourt, J.L., Latorre, C., Quade, B., Rylander, K.A., Fisher, T., 2008. Paleowetlands and regional climate change in the central Atacama Desert, northern Chile. Quaternary Research 69, 343–360.Google Scholar
Rademaker, K.M., Hodgins, G., Moore, K., Zarrillo, S., Miller, C., Bromley, G.R.M., Leach, P., Reid, D.A., Yépez Álvarez, W., Sandweiss, D.H., 2014. Paleoindian settlement of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes. Science 346, 466–469.Google Scholar
Ramsey, C.B., Lee, S., 2013. Recent and planned developments of the program oxcal. Radiocarbon 55, 720–730.Google Scholar
Rech, J.A., 2001. Late Quaternary paleohydrology and surficial processes of the AtacamaDesert, Chile: Evidence from wetland deposits and stable isotopes of soil salts, Department of Geosciences. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, p. 222.Google Scholar
Rech, J.A., Ginat, H., Catlett, G.A., Mischke, S., Tully, E.W., Pigati, J.S., 2017. Pliocene-Pleistocene water-bodies and associated deposits in southern Jordan and Israel, In: Enzel, Y., Bar-Yosef, O. (Eds.), Quaternary Environments, Climate Change and Humans in the Levant. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 127–134.Google Scholar
Rech, J.A., Pigati, J.S., Quade, J., Betancourt, J.L., 2003. Re-evaluation of mid-Holocene deposits at Quebrada Puripica, northern Chile. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 194, 207–222.Google Scholar
Rech, J.A., Quade, J., Betancourt, J.L., 2002. Late Quaternary paleohydrology of the central Atacama Desert (lat 22 degrees-24 degrees S), Chile. Geological Society of America Bulletin 114, 334–348.Google Scholar
Rein, B., Luckge, A., Reinhardt, L., Sirocko, F., Wolf, A., Dullo, W.C., 2005. El Nino variability off Peru during the last 20,000 years. Paleoceanography 20.Google Scholar
Rivera, M.A., 2005. Arqueología del Desierto de Atacama. La Etapa Formativa en el área de Ramaditas/Guatacondo, Colección Estudios Regionales y Locales. Universidad Bolivariana, Santiago Google Scholar
Rodbell, D.T., Seltzer, G.O., Anderson, D.M., Abbott, M.B., Enfield, D.B., Newman, J.H., 1999. An ~15,000-year record of El Niño-driven alluviation in southwestern Ecuador. Science 283, 516–520.Google Scholar
Rozas, C., 2014. Arquitectura y paisaje temprano en quebradas tarapaqueñas. ocupaón humana prehispácica en quebrada Maní durante el periodo Formativo: un acercamienbti desde la arqueología relacional, Facultad de Estudios de Patrimonio Cultural, Carrera de Arquoelogía. Universidad Sek, Santiago.Google Scholar
Saez, A., Godfrey, L.V., Herrera, C., Chong, G., Pueyo, J.J., 2016. Timing of wet episodes in Atacama Desert over the last 15 ka. The Groundwater Discharge Deposits (GWD) from Domeyko Range at 25 degrees S. Quaternary Science Reviews 145, 82–93.Google Scholar
Salazar, D., Figueroa, V., Andrade, P., Salinas, H., Olguín, L., Power, X., Rebolledo, S., Parra, S., Orellana, H., Urrea, J., 2015. Cronología y organización económica de las poblaciones arcaicas de la costa de Taltal. Estudios Atacameños Arqueología y Antropología Surandinas 50, 7–46.Google Scholar
Santoro, C.M., Gayo, E.M., Capriles, J.M., de Porras, M.E., Maldonado, A., Standen, V.G., Latorre, C., Castro, V., Angelo, D., McRostie, V., Uribe, M., Valenzuela, D., Ugalde, P.C., Marquet, P.A., 2017. Continuities and discontinuities in the socio-environmental systems of the Atacama Desert during the last 13,000 years. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 46, 28–39.Google Scholar
Schleussner, C.-F., Donges, J.F., Donner, R.V., Schellnhuber, H.J., 2016. Armed-conflict risks enhanced by climate-related disasters in ethnically fractionalized countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113, 9216–9221.Google Scholar
Schumm, S.A., Hadley, R.F., 1957. Arroyos and the semiarid cycle of erosion. American Journal of Science 255, 161–174.Google Scholar
Seager, R., Burgman, R., Kushnir, Y., Clement, A.C., Cook, E.R., Naik, N., Miller, J., 2008. Tropical Pacific forcing of North American medieval megadroughts: Testing the concept with an atmosphere model forced by coral-reconstructed SSTs. Journal of Climate 21, 6175–6190.Google Scholar
Seager, R., Tzanova, A., Nakamura, J., 2009. Drought in the southeastern United States: Causes, variability ofver the last millennium, and the potential for future hydroclimate change. Journal of Climate 22, 5021–5045.Google Scholar
Slota, P.J., Jull, A.J.T., Linick, T.W., Toolin, L.J., 1987. Preparation of small samples for 14C accelerator targets by catalytic reduction of CO. Radiocarbon 29, 303–306.Google Scholar
Stahle, D.W., Falko, K.F., Cook, E.R., Griffin, R.D., 2007. Tree-ring reconstructed megadroughts over North America since A.D. 1300. Climatic Change 83, 133–149.Google Scholar
Stambaugh, M.C., Guyette, R.P., McMurry, E.R., Cook, E.R., Meko, D.M., Lupo, A.R., 2011. Drought duration and frequency in the U.S. corn belt during the last millennium (AD 992-2004). Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 151, 154–162.Google Scholar
Standen, V.G., Santoro, C.M., Arriaza, B., Coleman, D., 2017. Hunting, gathering, and fishing on the coast of the Atacama Desert: Chinchorro population mobility patterns inferred from strontium Isotopes. Geoarcaheology An International Journal.Google Scholar
Tripaldi, A., Forman, S.L., 2007. Geomorphology and chronology of Late Quaternary dune fields of western Argentina. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 251, 300–320.Google Scholar
Urbina, S., Adán, L., Pellegrino, C., 2012. Arquitecturas formativas de las quebradas de Guatacondo y Tarapacá a través del proceso aldeano (ça. 900 AC-1000 DC). Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino 17, 31–60.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., 2006a. Acerca de complejidad, desigualdad social y el complejo cultural Pica-Tarapacá en los Andes centro-sur (1000-1450 DC). Estudios Atacameños 31, 91–114.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., 2006b. Sobre cerámica, su origen y complejidad social en los Andes del desierto de Atacama, In: Lechtman, H. (Ed.), Esferas de Interacción Prehistóricas y Fronteras Nacionales Modernas: Los Andes Sur Centrales. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos e Institute of Andean Research, Lima, pp. 449–502.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., 2009. El período Formativo de Tarapacá y su cerámica: avances sobre complejidad social en la costa del Norte Grande de Chile (900 AC - 800 DC). Estudios Atacameños 37, 5–27.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., Agüero, C., Catalán, D., Herrera, M.J., Santana-Sagredo, F., 2015. Nuevos fechados del sitio Tarapacá-40: recientes análisis y reflexiones sobre un cementerio clave del período Formativo del norte de Chile y Andes Centro Sur (1110 a.C.–660 d.C). Ñawpa Pacha 35, 57–89.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., Sanhueza, L., Bahamondes, F., 2007. La cerámica prehispánica tardía de Tarapacá, sus valles interiores y costa desértica, norte de Chile (ca. 900-1.450 d.C.): una propuesta tipológica y cronológica. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena 39, 143–170.Google Scholar
Uribe, M., Vidal, E., 2012. Sobre la secuencia cerámica del período Formativo de Tarapacá (900 a.c.-900 d.c.): estudios en Pircas, Caserones, Guatacondo y Ramaditas, norte de Chile. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 44, 209–245.Google Scholar
Urrutia, R., Vuille, M., 2009. Climate change projections for the tropical Andes using a regional climate model: Temperature and precipitation simulations for the end of the 21st century. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 114.Google Scholar
Vidal, A., García, M., Méndez-Quirós, P., 2015. Producción anual versus estacional: dos estrategias de producción agrícola durante el período Formativo en Tarapacá, norte de Chile, Actas del XIX Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena. Sociedad Chilena de Arqueología, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, pp. 183–192.Google Scholar
Vuille, M., Ammann, C., 1997. Regional snowfall patterns in the high, arid Andes. Climatic Change 36, 413–423.Google Scholar
Vuille, M., Baumgartner, M.F., 1998. Monitoring the regional and temporal variability of winter snowfall in the arid Andes using digital NOAA/AVHRR data. Geocarto International 13, 59–67.Google Scholar
Vuille, M., Burns, S.J., Taylor, B.L., Cruz, F.W., Bird, B.W., Abbott, M.B., Kanner, L.C., Cheng, H., Novello, V.F., 2012. A review of the South American monsoon history as recorded in stable isotopic proxies over the past two millennia. Climate of the Past 8, 1309–1321.Google Scholar
Vuille, M.V., 1999. Atmospheric circulation over the Bolivian Altiplano during dry and wet periods and extreme phases of the southern oscillation. International Journal of Climatology 19, 1579–1600.Google Scholar
Vuille, M.V., Keimig, F., 2004. Interannual variability of summertime convective cloudiness and precipitation in the central Andes derived from ISCCP-B3 data. Journal of Climate 17, 3334–3348.Google Scholar
Waters, M.R., 1985. Late Quaternary alluvial stratigraphy of Whitewater Draw, Arizona: Implications for regional correlation of fluvial deposits in the American Southwest. Geology 13, 705–708.Google Scholar
Waters, M.R., Haynes, C.V., 2001. Late Quaternary arroyo formation and climate change in the American Southwest. Geology 29, 399–402.Google Scholar
Woodhouse, C.A., Meko, D.M., MacDonald, G.M., Stahle, D.W., Cook, E.R., 2010. A 1,200-year perspective of 21st century drought in southwestern North America. Proceedings of the national Academy of Sciences 107, 21283–21288.Google Scholar
Zhou, J.Y., Lau, K.M., 1998. Does a monsoon climate exist over South America? Journal of Climate 11, 1020–1040.Google Scholar
Zierholz, C., Prosser, I.P., Fogarty, P.J., Rustomji, P., 2001. In-stream wetlands and their significance for channel filling and the catchment sediment budget, Jugiong Creek, New South Wales. Geomorphology 38, 221–235.Google Scholar
Zori, C., Brant, E., 2012. Managing the risk of climatic variability in late prehistoric northern Chile. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31, 403–421.Google Scholar
Supplementary material: File

Tully et al. supplementary material

Tully et al. supplementary material 1

Download Tully et al. supplementary material(File)
File 59.4 KB
Supplementary material: Image

Tully et al. supplementary material

Tully et al. supplementary material 2

Download Tully et al. supplementary material(Image)
Image 9.8 MB