“…Some of these tephras were correlated with the Cerro Blanco Volcanic Complex (CBVC, Fig. 1b), the site of one of the largest Holocene eruptions in the Central Andes, which 4200 years ago blanketed the northwestern Argentina with a thick layer of ash and significantly impacted the local human inhabitation (Montero López et al, 2009;Ratto, 2013;Báez et al, 2015Báez et al, , 2020aFernández-Turiel et al, 2019;Sampietro-Vattuone et al, 2020a;Boretto et al, 2021;Carbonelli et al, 2022). However, up to now, there has been no comprehensive tephrochronology study of the Holocene tephras distributed in this region.…”