'White gold' guano fertilizer drove agricultural intensification in the Atacama Desert from AD 1000.
Journal
Nature plants
ISSN: 2055-0278
Titre abrégé: Nat Plants
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101651677
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2021
02 2021
Historique:
received:
10
08
2020
accepted:
08
12
2020
pubmed:
27
1
2021
medline:
28
4
2021
entrez:
26
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The archaeological record shows that large pre-Inca agricultural systems supported settlements for centuries around the ravines and oases of northern Chile's hyperarid Atacama Desert. This raises questions about how such productivity was achieved and sustained, and its social implications. Using isotopic data of well-preserved ancient plant remains from Atacama sites, we show a dramatic increase in crop nitrogen isotope values (δ
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pubmed: 33495555
doi: 10.1038/s41477-020-00835-4
pii: 10.1038/s41477-020-00835-4
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Historical Article
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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