Wetlands and Paleolakes in the Hyperarid Atacama Desert During the Late Quaternary and Their Implications for Early Human Occupation of South America
Marco Pfeiffer1,2, Claudio Latorre3,4, Calogero Santoro5, Eugenia Gayo6, Virginia McRostie3, Kari M Finstad1 and Ronald Amundson7, (1)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Ingenieria y Suelos, Santiago, Chile, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Departamento de Ecologia, Santiago, Chile, (4)Institute of Ecology & Biodiversity, Santiago, Chile, (5)Universidad de Tarapacá, Instituto de Alta Investigacion, Arica, Chile, (6)Center for Climate and Resilience Research, Santiago, Chile, (7)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States