Climate change-induced population pressure drives high rates of lethal violence in the Prehispanic central Andes.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the influence of climate change and population pressure on human conflict remains a critically important topic in the social sciences. Long-term records that evaluate these dynamics across multiple centuries and outside the range of modern climatic variation are especially capable of elucidating the relative effect of—and the interaction between—climate and demography. This is crucial given that climate change may structure population growth and carrying capacity, while both climate and population influence per capita resource availability. This study couples paleoclimatic and demographic data with osteological evaluations of lethal trauma from 149 directly accelerator mass spectrometry 14C-dated individuals from the Nasca highland region of Peru. Multiple local and supraregi

SUBMITTER: McCool WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9169923 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature