Impacts of Climate Variability on Pre-Hispanic Settlement Behavior in South Peru : the Northern Río Grande de Nasca Drainage between 1500 BCE and 1532 CE
Impacts of Climate Variability on Pre-Hispanic Settlement Behavior in South Peru : the Northern Río Grande de Nasca Drainage between 1500 BCE and 1532 CE
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气候变化对秘鲁南部前西班牙裔定居行为的影响:公元前 1500 年至公元 1532 年期间北部里奥格兰德·德纳斯卡流域
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2014
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Volker Sossna
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Volker Sossna
Based on data gathered by an archaeological long-term project of the German Archaeological Institute, 3,000 years of settlement history of the Palpa Region at the Andean west flank in South Peru (14.5° S) are being reconstructed. The settlement patterns of ten successive cultural phases show substantial changes in terms of settlement hierarchies and population development. Furthermore, the foci of settlement shift. Due to the arid conditions in this region already minor fluctuations in absolute amounts of precipitation have a significant impact on the agricultural potential. The question is therefore pursued whether past climate change may have been the principal trigger for changes in settlement behavior. While the limited and uneven resolution of the data impedes a definite assessment, the general trend seems to suggest that many major developments in settlement behavior do not temporally correlate with climate fluctuations.