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