Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago

Dillehay, Tom D.; Bonavía, Duccio; Goodbred, Steven L.; Pino, Mario; Vásquez, Víctor; Tham, Teresa Rosales; Conklin, William J.; Splitstoser, Jeff; Piperno, Dolores R.; Iriarte, José; Grobman, Alexander; Levi-Lazzaris, Gerson; Moreira, Daniel Fernandes; Lopéz, Marilaura; Tung, Tiffiny A.; Titelbaum, Anne R.; Verano, John W.; Adovasio, J. M.; Cummings, Linda Scott; Bearéz, Phillipe; Dufour, Élise; Tombret, Olivier; Ramirez, Michael T.; Beavins, Rachel; DeSantis, Larisa R.G.; Madeira, Isabel Rey; Mink, Philip B.; Maggard, Greg; Franco, Teresa

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“…Ninety percent of the examined assemblage shows macroscopically visible indications of use. This basic, expedient pattern of behavior represents a long tradition of unifacial tools that changed little and continued to be made into the Inka and late Colonial periods ( 15 , 16 ). …”

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Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

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Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

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“…The gray bars (Right) indicate for the year given the number of simulated populations (of the 1,000 simulated) in which more than 50% of the entire population were bourgeois farmers. Estimated dates of some well-studied cases of the initial emergence of cultivation are on the horizontal axis (8,54,55). Climate variability (Left) is an indicator of the 100-y maximum difference in surface temperature measured by levels of δ 18 O from Greenland ice cores (SI Appendix).…”

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Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The advent of farming around 12 millennia ago was a cultural as well as technological revolution, requiring a new system of property rights. Among mobile hunter-gatherers during the late Pleistocene, food was almost certainly widely shared as it was acquired. If a harvested crop or the meat of a domesticated animal were to have been distributed to other group members, a late Pleistocene would-be farmer would have had little incentive to engage in the required investments in clearing, cultivation, animal tending, and storage. However, the new property rights that farming required-secure individual claims to the products of one's labor-were infeasible because most of the mobile and dispersed resources of a forager economy could not cost-effectively be delimited and defended. The resulting chicken-and-egg puzzle might be resolved if farming had been much more productive than foraging, but initially it was not. Our model and simulations explain how, despite being an unlikely event, farming and a new system of farming-friendly property rights nonetheless jointly emerged when they did. This Holocene revolution was not sparked by a superior technology. It occurred because possession of the wealth of farmers-crops, dwellings, and animals-could be unambiguously demarcated and defended. This facilitated the spread of new property rights that were advantageous to the groups adopting them. Our results thus challenge unicausal models of historical dynamics driven by advances in technology, population pressure, or other exogenous changes. Our approach may be applied to other technological and institutional revolutions such as the 18th-and 19th-century industrial revolution and the information revolution today.agent-based simulation | evolutionary game theory | technical change | institutional change | big history A mong the outstanding puzzles in human social dynamics is the simultaneous emergence and diffusion of novel economic institutions and new technologies. An important example is the appearance of private storage (1-4) and other indicators of individual property (5, 6) along with the advent of farming (7,8), one of the greatest technological-institutional revolutions ever experienced by our species.Economists, archaeologists, and historians often consider advances in technology to be an exogenous driver of innovations in property rights, wealth inheritance practices, or other institutions. Well-studied examples include the social and cultural impacts of the introduction of the horse on the US Great Plains in the 17th century or the sweet potato in the New Guinea Highlands a century later (9, 10). However, the technological and institutional innovations of the early Holocene are difficult to reconcile with this view because, as a number of archaeologists have pointed out (11-13), farming was probably not economically advantageous in many places where it was first introduced. Indeed, recent estimates suggest that the productivity of the first farmers (calories per hour of labor including processing and storage) was proba...

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“…This region, although one of the most arid in the world, has been inhabited for over 13,000 years (Sandweiss and Richardson, 2008). The oldest site and the most recent site (Pampa de los fósiles and Bayovar-1, respectively) were specialised nonpermanent fishing settlements (Béarez et al, 2011;Goepfert et al, 2014), while the Huaca Prieta is a monumental mound resulting from thousands of years of occupation (Dillehay et al, 2012). The modern otoliths were selected as species and environmental counterparts to the archaeological specimens.…”

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“…The set of otoliths in this work is part of a larger study of palaeoenvironmental and past human occupation conditions on the Pacific coast (Béarez et al, 2011;Aubert et al, 2012;Dillehay et al, 2012). The tropical Pacific Ocean is the centre of action of the ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), the strongest source of interannual climate variability on the planet (Webster and Palmer, 1997;Tudhope and Collins, 2003).…”

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Biogenic and diagenetic indicators in archaeological and modern otoliths: Potential and limits of high definition synchrotron micro-XRF elemental mapping

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Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago

Cited by 68 publications

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Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru

Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene

Biogenic and diagenetic indicators in archaeological and modern otoliths: Potential and limits of high definition synchrotron micro-XRF elemental mapping

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