Highland Foragers of the Central Andes

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Between 12,800 and 3,500 years ago, highland foragers of the central Andes of South America solved adaptive challenges related to high-altitude survival, climate change, and demographic growth. In the process, they innovated agropastoral products that would eventually fuel Andean urbanization and global economies. The first populations seasonally exploited the highlands to hunt Pleistocene megafauna. Between 11,700 and 9,000 years ago, a second wave of foragers expanded into the highlands pursuing broad-spectrum diets and innovating thermoregulatory technologies that supported permanent residence of the highlands. Under conditions of heightened aridity, demographic packing, and violence 8,000–5,000 years ago, certain highland populations began to explore new socioeconomic practices including camelid management, tuber intensification, and artificial cranial modification. These practices, and the cultural norms they entailed, expanded during a period of precipitous population decline 5,000–3,500 years ago when highland foragers developed agropastoral economies, communal architecture, and new technologies including ceramics, woolen textiles, and archery.
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Authors Randall Haas
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.26
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195391367.013.26
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