Diet Change in the Atacama: the Coprolite Evidence

This write up in the Scarlet at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln highlights research that I and my colleagues recently published in the journal PloSOne. After reading Santoro's dissertation about the archaeological site from which the coprolites came, I questioned whether they would reveal evidence of verticality, now called ecological complementarity. This research demonstrates how collaboration can reveal a greater understanding of diet change in the Atacama Desert at the time of the Inka.


http://scarlet.unl.edu/?p=5805

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0008069

http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/11/new_and_exciting_in_plos_one_220.php