Mariusz S. Ziółkowski, Mieczysław F. Pazdur †, Andrzej Krzanowski, Adam Michczyński

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Sample Details

Sample ID:
UGAMS-4565
Delta13 Correction:
Age BP:
1000 ± 25
Sitename:
Quebrada Mani 1
Country:
Chile
Material:
prosopis fruit
Sample Details:
Provenience:
unit N0E0, sub unit 2
Context of the Sample:
other context
Description of the Site:
situated along the west-facing slope of the Central Andes in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, an area that contains an archaeological record that spans almost 13,000 years.
Location Details

Country:
Chile
Administration Unit:
Tarapaca
Latitude:
-21.1378972
Longitude:
-69.2992444
Altitude:
1250
Project Details

Collected:
1963-2021
Project:
Laboratory comment:
Contamination:
Archaeological comment:
organic-rich deposits, rodent-burrows and archaeological archives found at Quebrada Mani (QM) an unvegetated, uninhabited and ephemeral (dry) ravine that drains into the southernmost PdT basin
Publication date:
2009
References:
Santoro, Calogero M, Ugalde, Paula C, Latorre, Claudio, Salas, Carolina, Osorio, Daniela, Jackson, Donald, & Gayó, Eugenia. (2011). OCUPACIÓN HUMANA PLEISTOCÉNICA EN EL DESIERTO DE ATACAMA: PRIMEROS RESULTADOS DE LA APLICACIÓN DE UN MODELO PREDICTIVO DE INVESTIGACIÓN INTERDISCIPLINARIA. Chungará (Arica), 43(especial), 353-366:

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We are very grateful to Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey for his support in the installation of the date calibration system, based on the OxCal program.