Chronological database for Southern Chile (35°30'–42° S), ∼33000 BP to present: Human implications and archaeological biases

Campbell, Roberto; Quiroz, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.07.026

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“…Because demography is strongly linked to socio-cultural complexity (Henrich, 2004;Powell et al, 2009;Turchin et al, 2018) and energy consumption/ production (Freeman et al, 2018a(Freeman et al, , 2018b, representing therefore one of the most important factors behind the impacts of human activities on the landscape (Ellis et al, 2013;Malm and Hornborg, 2014), we reconstructed paleodemographic history at micro-regional scales over the last three millennia. Particularly, we estimated summed probability distributions (SPDs) of radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates from published archaeological sites from the northern (Gayo et al, 2015;Troncoso and Pavlovic, 2013) and central (Campbell and Quiroz, 2015;Falabella et al, 2015Falabella et al, , 2007Sanchez, 2001, Sanhueza et al, 2006, 2003Troncoso and Pavlovic, 2013) regions (see Text S1 in Supplemental Material 1, Datasets 1-2 in Supplemental Data 1). This method uses "dates as data" and assumes that changes in the accumulation of chronological determinations on archaeological remains reflect variations in the intensity of human activities through time as a proxy of population levels (Chaput and Gajewski, 2016;Rick, 1987).…”

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“…Chile offers a privileged context to develop an integrative and comparative narrative from contrasting socio-ecological trajectories. Firstly, during the last three millennia, most of the territory was extensively occupied and subject to different socio-economic systems that included hunter-gathering, agriculture, silviculture and industrialization (Armesto et al, 2010;Campbell and Quiroz, 2015;Gayo et al, 2015). This opens up the opportunity to evaluate sequential regime shifts in environmental patterns brought about by different capacities in ecosystem engineering.…”

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Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile

Gayó

McRostie

Campbell

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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The deep-time dynamics of coupled socio-ecological systems at different spatial scales is viewed as a key framework to understand trends and mechanisms that have led to the Anthropocene. By integrating archeological and paleoenvironmental records, we test the hypothesis that Chilean societies progressively escalated their capacity to shape national biophysical systems as socio-cultural complexity and pressures on natural resources increased over the last three millennia. We demonstrate that Pre-Columbian societies intentionally transformed Chile’s northern and central regions by continuously adjusting socio-cultural practices and/or incorporating technologies that guaranteed resource access and social wealth. The fact that past human activities led to cumulative impacts on diverse biophysical processes, not only contradicts the notion of pristine pre-Industrial Revolution landscapes, but suggests that the Anthropocene derives from long-term processes that have operated uninterruptedly since Pre-Columbian times. Moreover, our synthesis suggests that most of present-day symptoms that describe the Anthropocene are rooted in pre-Columbian processes that scaled up in intensity over the last 3000 years, accelerating after the Spanish colonization and, more intensely, in recent decades. The most striking trend is the observed coevolution between the intensity of metallurgy and heavy-metal anthropogenic emissions. This entails that the Anthropocene cannot be viewed as a universal imprint of human actions that has arisen as an exclusive consequence of modern industrial societies. In the Chilean case, this phenomenon is intrinsically tied to historically and geographically diverse configurations in society-environment feedback relationships. Taken collectively with other case studies, the patterns revealed here could contribute to the discussion about how the Anthropocene is defined globally, in terms of chronology, stratigraphic markers and attributes. Furthermore, this deep-time narrative can potentially become a science-based instrument to shape better-informed discourses about the socio-environmental history in Chile. More importantly, however, this research provides crucial “baselines” to delineate safe operating spaces for future socio-ecological systems.

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Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile

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“…1; Table A.1; Borrero and Franco, 2000;Gil, 2006;Salemme and Miotti, 2008;Tessone and Belardi, 2010;Boschín and Andrade, 2011;Morello et al, 2012;Fern andez et al, 2013;Martínez et al, 2013;Prates et al, 2013;San Rom an, 2013;Gil et al, 2014;Pallo and Ozan, 2014;Barberena et al, 2015;Ber on, 2015;Campbell and Quiroz, 2015;García Guraieb et al, 2015;Martínez et al, 2015;Zubimendi et al, 2015;Perez et al, 2016). Sites from neighbor areas such as Southern Cuyo and South Pampa were also included because they have been previously discussed together with Patagonian sites in studies that address the peopling of this region.…”

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Peopling time, spatial occupation and demography of Late Pleistocene–Holocene human population from Patagonia

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Rindel

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“…En una escala regional contamos con las investigaciones realizadas por Hajduk, Cúneo, Della Negra y equipo en la cuenca del río Curi Leuvú ubicada al sur de CH1 (Della Negra et al 2009;Hajduk & Cúneo, 2009;Hajduk et al 2011). En escala macroregional se cuenta con valiosos antecedentes para las regiones vecinas: sur de Mendoza, incluyendo la cuenca del río Grande y el campo volcánico La Payunia (Durán, 2000;Gil, 2006;Salgán, 2012), centro-sur de Neuquén (Fernández, 1988(Fernández, -1990Crivelli Montero et al 1996;López et al 2009), La Pampa (Berón, 2007) y centro-sur de Chile, particularmente las regiones de la Araucanía y el Maule (Menghin, 1962;Dillehay, 2010;Massone et al 2011;Campbell & Quiroz, 2015).…”

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Perspectivas arqueológicas para Patagonia Septentrional: Sitio Cueva Huenul 1 (Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina)

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RESUMENEl norte de la provincia de Neuquén (Depto. Pehuenches, Argentina) es muy poco conocido a nivel arqueológico, a pesar de estar ubicado en una posición central en relación con distintos temas clave del poblamiento humano de Sudamérica, incluyendo la extinción de la megafauna y sus causas, el poblamiento humano inicial y la existencia de discontinuidades arqueológicas en el Holoceno medio. En este trabajo se presenta el primer cuerpo de resultados paleoecológicos y arqueológicos para el sitio Cueva Huenul 1, recientemente excavado, que ofrece una secuencia sedimentaria que se extiende durante los últimos 16.000 años calendáricos. Estas evidencias incluyen el desarrollo de un marco crono-estratigráfico para el sitio, que aporta novedosa información tefro-cronológica. A partir de este análisis, se definen cuatro componentes temporales, sobre los cuales se asienta el estudio de los materiales recuperados: evidencias faunísticas (paleontológicas y arqueológicas), arqueobotánicas, líticas, cerámicas y de arte rupestre. Estos resultados en escala de sitio proveen una primera instancia de evaluación de procesos en escala macro-regional, así como las bases para la continuación de este proyecto.PALABRAS CLAVE: Neuquén, fauna extinta, poblamiento humano temprano, cronología, tendencias temporales. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES FOR NORTHERN PATAGONIA:CUEVA HUENUL 1 SITE (NEUQUEN PROVINCE, ARGENTINA) ABSTRACT Northern Neuquén Province (Pehuenches Dept., Argentina) is barely known from an archaeological 138 R. BARBERENA et al. perspective, though it is centrally placed in terms of several large-scale key issues in the peopling of South America: the extinction of the megafauna and its causes, early human presence, and the existence of archaeological discontinuities during the Mid-Holocene. In this paper we present the first body of paleoecological and archaeological data for Cueva Huenul 1 site, recently excavated, which offers a sedimentary sequence extending during the last of 16.000 calendar years. Initially, we present a chronostratigraphic frame for the site, including new tephro-chronological information. On this basis, four temporal components are defined, providing the historical scheme for the analysis of the recovered evidences that include: archaeofaunas (paleontological and archaeological), archaeobotany, lithic and ceramic technology, and rockart. These results at a site scale provide a first approach to a discussion of macro-regional processes, as well as the basis for the continuation of our research.KEY WORDS: Neuquén, extinct fauna, early human peopling, chronology, temporal tendencies. INTRODUCCIÓN Y ANTECEDENTESEste trabajo se enmarca en un proyecto arqueológico recientemente iniciado en el extremo noroeste de Patagonia (Departamento Pehuenches, provincia del Neuquén, Argentina; Fig. 1; Barberena, 2013). Básicamente la región carece de información arqueológica, lo que ofrece tanto una limitación como un desafío para el desarrollo de este proyecto. En esta instancia inicial de acercamiento a la arqueol...

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Chronological database for Southern Chile (35°30'–42° S), ∼33000 BP to present: Human implications and archaeological biases

Cited by 33 publications

References 17 publications

Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile

Geohistorical records of the Anthropocene in Chile

Peopling time, spatial occupation and demography of Late Pleistocene–Holocene human population from Patagonia

Perspectivas arqueológicas para Patagonia Septentrional: Sitio Cueva Huenul 1 (Provincia del Neuquén, Argentina)

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