Environmental factors are assumed to play an important role in the shaping of craniofacial
morphology. Here we propose a statistical approach which can be of utility in estimating the …

Abstract The Argentine Center‐West was the southernmost portion of the Andes where
domestication of plants and animals evolved. Populations located in the southern portion of …

Scholars continue to debate the identity of individuals curated as trophy heads in the Nazca
Drainage of southern Peru (c. 1–800 AD). What was the role of trophy heads in Nasca …

Central western Argentina is the southern boundary of prehispanic maize in the
archaeological record. This paper explores the stable isotope information from human bone …

Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient
economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the …

We present the results of XRF analysis for 428 obsidian samples from archaeological sites
in the Argentinian province of Mendoza and from central Chile. The archaeological samples …

In this paper we present stable isotope information (δ13C in bone collagen and apatite, and
δ15N) in order to discuss the significance of maize consumption in the human diets of …

The genetics that distinguish the" domesticated" form of maize from its wild progenitor
teosinte are now believed to involve relatively few genes, with one of those genes being …

This paper reviews the significant advances in isotopic investigations in Andean South
America and directs scholars to explore new theoretical and analytical directions …

Many American cultivated species have been domesticated in the Neotropical Lowlands.
While the southern limit of some cultivars (eg maize) is relatively well known for the Andean …