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Abbravation: Quaternary Research

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1096-0287

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Climate Variation and the Rise and Fall of an Ande

Authors: Michael W Binford Alan L Kolata Mark Brenner John W Janusek Matthew T Seddon Mark Abbott Jason H Curtis
Publish Date: 1997/03
Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 235-248
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Paleolimnological and archaeological records that span 3500 years from Lake Titicaca and the surrounding Bolivian–Peruvian altiplano demonstrate that the emergence of agriculture ca 1500 BC and the collapse of the Tiwanaku civilization ca AD 1100 coincided with periods of abrupt profound climate change The timing and magnitude of climate changes are inferred from stratigraphic evidence of lakelevel variation recorded in14Cdated lakesediment cores Paleolake levels provide estimates of drainage basin water balance Archaeological evidence establishes spatial and temporal patterns of agricultural field use and abandonment Prior to 1500 BC aridity in the altiplano precluded intensive agriculture During a wetter period from 1500 BC to AD 1100 the Tiwanaku civilization and its immediate predecessors developed specialized agricultural methods that stimulated population growth and sustained large human settlements A prolonged drier period ca AD 1100–1400 caused declining agricultural production field abandonment and cultural collapse

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