Browsing by Autor "Heinz Veit"

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Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia
(Nature Portfolio, 2020) Umberto Lombardo; José Iriarte; Lautaro Hilbert; Javier Ruiz-Pérez; José M. Capriles; Heinz Veit
High-altitude adaptation and late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes
(Elsevier BV, 2016) José M. Capriles; Juan Albarracín-Jordán; Umberto Lombardo; Daniela Osorio; Blaine Maley; Steven T. Goldstein; Katherine Herrera; Michael D. Glascock; Alejandra I. Domic; Heinz Veit
Persistent Early to Middle Holocene tropical foraging in southwestern Amazonia
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019) José M. Capriles; Umberto Lombardo; Blaine Maley; Carlos Zuna; Heinz Veit; Douglas J. Kennett
The Amazon witnessed the emergence of complex societies after 2500 years ago that altered tropical landscapes through intensive agriculture and managed aquatic systems. However, very little is known about the context and conditions that preceded these social and environmental transformations. Here, we demonstrate that forest islands in the Llanos de Moxos of southwestern Amazonia contain human burials and represent the earliest settlements in the region between 10,600 and 4000 years ago. These archaeological sites and their contents represent the earliest evidence of communities that experienced conditions conducive to engaging with food production such as environmental stability, resource disturbance, and increased territoriality in the Amazonian tropical lowlands.
Reconstruction of a complex late Quaternary glacial landscape in the Cordillera de Cochabamba (Bolivia) based on a morphostratigraphic and multiple dating approach
(Cambridge University Press, 2011) Jan‐Hendrik May; Jana Zech; Roland Zech; Frank Preusser; Jaime Argollo; Peter W. Kubik; Heinz Veit
Abstract Although glacial landscapes have previously been used for the reconstruction of late Quaternary glaciations in the Central Andes, only few data exist for the Eastern Cordillera in Bolivia. Here, we present results from detailed morphostratigraphic mapping and new data of surface exposure dating (SED), optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), and radiocarbon dating ( 14 C) from the Huara Loma Valley, Cordillera de Cochabamba (Bolivia). Discrepancies between individual dating methods could be addressed within the context of a solid geomorphic framework. We identified two major glaciations. The older is not well constrained by the available data, whereas the younger glaciation is subdivided into at least four major glacial stages. Regarding the latter, a first advance dated to ~ 29–25 ka occurred roughly contemporaneous with the onset of the global last glacial maximum (LGM) and was followed by a less extensive (re-)advance around 20–18 ka. The local last glacial maximum (LLGM) in the Huara Loma Valley took place during the humid lateglacial ~17–16 ka, followed by several smaller readvances until ~10–11 ka, and complete deglaciation at the end of the Early Holocene.