Palaeodemography in Southern South America

Abstract

Demographic processes are of special interest in the study of human dynamics throughout space and time, and for many different disciplines other than geography (e.g., biology, genetics, and historical sciences) (Vaupel and Kohler, 2000; Chamberlain, 2006). Although these processes have always been in the background of the archaeological agenda (Borrero, 1989), addressing them has become increasingly important during the last twenty years since radiocarbon databases began to offer high-resolution chronology for large regions