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    • Chagas' disease in pre‐Columbian South America 
      Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Allison, Marvin J.; Núñez, Lautaro; Standen, Vivien; Arriaza, Bernardo (1985)
      The quest for the origin and dispersion of Chagas' disease, the second most important vector‐borne disease in Latin America, has epidemiological, immunological, and genetical implications. Conjectures based on accounts of ...
    • Mid-Holocene climate and culture change in the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile 
      Grosjean, Martin; Núñez, Lautaro; Cartajena, Isabel; Messerli, Bruno (Academic Press Inc., 1997)
      Twenty archaeological campsites intercalated between more than 30 debris flows caused by heavy rainfall events between 6200 and 3100 14C yr B.P. have recently been discovered at Quebrada Puripica in the Atacama Desert of ...
    • Moving into an arid landscape: lithic technologies of the pleistocene-Holocene transition in the high-altitude ... 
      Loyola, Rodrigo; Cartajena, Isabel; Núñez, Lautaro; López, M. Patricio (Elsevier, 2018-04)
      In this work, we use taphonomic and technological analyses as a basis for study of the spatial and temporal variability of six lithic assemblages from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (12,600 -11,000 cal BP), recovered ...
    • The temple of Tulan-54: early formative ceremonial architecture in the Atacama Desert 
      Núñez, Lautaro; Cartajena Fasting, María Isabel; Carrasco, Carlos; López Mendoza, Patricio; De Souza Herreros, Patricio; Rivera, Francisco; Santander, Boris; González Loyola, Rodrigo Alejandro (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      Unique among its kind in the Atacama Desert, the temple of Tulan-54 is a key site of the Early Formative period. Evidence of ceremonies and ritual activities, such as feasts and offerings, demonstrates that Tulan-54 was ...