Artículo
Rapid radiation of humans in South America after the last glacial maximum: A radiocarbon-based study
Fecha de publicación:
07/2020
Editorial:
Public Library of Science
Revista:
Plos One
ISSN:
1932-6203
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
The early peopling of the Americas has been one of the most hotly contested topics in American anthropology and a research issue that draws archaeologists into a multidisciplinary debate. In South America, although the background data on this issue has increased exponentially in recent decades, the core questions related to the temporal and spatial patterns of the colonization process remain open. In this paper we tackle these questions in the light of the quantitative analysis of a screened radiocarbon database of more than 1600 early dates. We explore the frequency of radiocarbon dates as proxies for assessing population growth; and define a reliable and statistically well supported lower chronological bound (not to the exact date) for the earliest human arrival. Our results suggest that the earliest chronological threshold for the peopling of South America should be between 16,600 and 15,100, with a mean estimated date ~ 15,500 cal BP (post Last Glacial Maximum). Population would have grown until the end of Antarctic Cold Reversal stadial ~12,500 cal BP at the time of the main extinctions of megafauna-, when the increase rate slows, probably as a result of the changes that occurred in the trophic niche of humans.
Palabras clave:
American peopling
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Radiocarbon data
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DNA information
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Statistical models
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Citación
Prates, Luciano Raúl; Politis, Gustavo Gabriel; Perez, Sergio Ivan; Rapid radiation of humans in South America after the last glacial maximum: A radiocarbon-based study; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 15; 7; 7-2020; 1-22
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