Central Andes

Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Ritual is broadly accepted as an important locus of social interaction in the pre-Hispanic Central Andes, and research into the …
John W. Rick, Verónica S. Lema, Javier Echeverría, Giuseppe Alva Valverde, Daniel A. Contreras, Oscar Arias Espinoza, Silvana A. Rosenfeld, Matthew P. Sayre
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Pre-Hispanic Ritual Use of Psychoactive Plants at Chavín de Huántar, Peru
Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Using the Central Andean Chavín Phenomenon as a case study, this paper explores the middle ground between top-down (big data) and …
Daniel A. Contreras
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Archaeological 14C Assemblages and the Chavín Phenomenon in the Central Andes
Reconsidering Chronologies and Cultural Change on the South Coast of Peru: A Compilation and Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates from Nasca, Ica, and Paracas
The South Coast of Peru, the location where Peru’s widely used period/horizon relative ceramic chronology was established and …
Christina A. Conlee, Daniel A. Contreras, Ann H. Peters, Kevin J. Vaughn
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Seeking Synchronicity: Re-examining the Peruvian Early Horizon through Bayesian Modeling of 14C Dates
Daniel A. Contreras
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El Niño Southern Oscillation and Enhanced Arid Land Vegetation Productivity in NW South America
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a periodic disruption of coupled oceanic-atmospheric conditions in the tropical Pacific, which …
Benjamin R. Vining, Aubrey Hillman, Daniel A. Contreras
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Climate and Demography Drive 7000 Years of Dietary Change in the Central Andes
Explaining the factors that influence past dietary variation is critically important for understanding changes in subsistence, health, …
KM Wilson, WC McCool, SC Brewer, N Zamora-Wilson, PJ Schryver, RLF Lamson, AM Huggard, J Brenner Coltrain, DA Contreras, BF Codding
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Expanded Agroecological Niches and Redistributed Risks in Northern Peru's Chicama Valley during Late-Holocene ENSO Climate Changes
South American arid lands present unique constellations of climatic risk to their human inhabitants, due to volatile events that can …
Benjamin R. Vining, Aubrey Hillman, Daniel A. Contreras, Ernesto Tejedor
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Stages, Periods, and Radiocarbon: 14C Dating in the Archaeology of the Central Andes
Some of the earliest archaeological materials radiocarbon-dated were from the Central Andes, and archaeologists from the region were …
Daniel A. Contreras
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Hacia Una Geoarqueología Del Paisaje Andina: Paisaje, Medioambiente, y Acción Humana En Chavín de Huántar
Daniel A. Contreras
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Not Just a Pyramid Scheme? Diversity in Ritual Architecture at Chavín de Huántar
Daniel A. Contreras
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