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

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Sample Details

Sample ID:
?CAMS-129007
Delta13 Correction:
Age BP:
870 ± 30
Sitename:
Quebrada Mani 2A
Country:
Chile
Material:
maize
Sample Details:
Provenience:
Crops in situ
Context of the Sample:
agriculture 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:
-21.0984583
Longitude:
-69.2943889
Altitude:
1295
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:
Gayo, E. M., Latorre, C., Santoro, C. M., Maldonado, A., and De Pol-Holz, R.: Hydroclimate variability in the low-elevation Atacama Desert over the last 2500 yr, Clim. Past, 8, 287–306:

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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.