Paper No. 12-11 OF PEOPLE, PLANTS AND SOILS: HUMAN ADAPTATIONS TO THE LATE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGES AT THE SONORAN DESERT REGION IN NORTHERN MEXICO



Paper No. 12-11
Presentation Time: 10:45 AM

OF PEOPLE, PLANTS AND SOILS: HUMAN ADAPTATIONS TO THE LATE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE CLIMATIC CHANGES AT THE SONORAN DESERT REGION IN NORTHERN MEXICO


PAPER WITHDRAWN
Recent investigations at El Fin del Mundo site in Pitiquito, Sonora reveals that Clovis hunters were in northern Sonora at about 13,390 cal yr ago; making the Sonoran Desert region one of the earliest and lengthier region occupied by humans. During early Holocene times the Sonoran Desert landscape was a paradise for archaic people with life ways depending on hunting, gathering plants and fishing. During late Holocene times, maize farmers communities were established at several river floodplains, agricultural communities persisted until the Spanish conquest. Here we present data obtained from El Fin del Mundo and La Playa archaeological sites in northern Sonora, which contained information regarding human adaptations of long duration, and proxy data for climatic reconstruction of Pleistocene and Holocene age. The human record together with paleosol data and plant remains constitute a useful set of records for understanding climatic anomalies, such as the younger dryas and the altitermal, and human responses to the fluctuations.

Session No. 12

T85. The Archaeological Record as a Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Archive
Sunday, 19 October 2014: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Vancouver Convention Centre-West 306
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 46, No. 6, p.53
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