Publications

Journal Articles

2021

Price, Michael H., José M. Capriles, Julie A. Hoggarth, R. Kyle Bocinsky, Claire E. Ebert, and James H. Jones. 2021. End-to-end Bayesian analysis for summarizing sets of radiocarbon dates. Journal of Archaeological Science 135:105473. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2021.105473 

Freeman, Jacob, John M. Anderies, Noelle G. Beckman, Erick Robinson, Jacopo A. Baggio, Darcy Bird, Christopher Nicholson, Judson Byrd Finley, José M. Capriles, Adolfo F. Gil, David Byers, Eugenia Gayo, and Claudio Latorre. 2021. Landscape engineering impacts the long-term stability of agricultural populations. Human Ecology 49:369-382. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00242-z 

Domic, Alejandra I. and José M. Capriles. 2021. Distribution shifts in habitat suitability and hotspot refugia of Andean tree species from the last glacial maximum to the Anthropocene. Neotropical Biodiversity 7(1):297-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/23766808.2021.1957652 

Langlie, BrieAnna S. and José M. Capriles. 2021. Paleoethnobotanical evidence points to agricultural mutualism among early camelid pastoralists of the Andean Central Altiplano. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13(107):1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01343-y 

Hippe, Kristina, John D. Jansen, Daniel Søndergaard Skov, Maarten Lupker, Susan Ivy-Ochs, Florian Kober, Gerold Zeilinger, José M. Capriles, Marcus Christl, Colin Maden, Christof Vockenhuber, and David L. Egholm. 2021. Cosmogenic in situ 14C-10Be reveals abrupt Late Holocene soil loss in the Andean Altiplano. Nature Communications 12(1):2546. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22825-6 

Capriles, José M., Calogero M. Santoro, Richard J. George, Eliana Flores Bedregal, Douglas J. Kennett, Logan Kistler, and Francisco Rothhammer. 2021. Pre-Columbian transregional captive rearing of Amazonian parrots in the Atacama Desert. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 118(15):e2020020118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2020020118 

Bruno, Maria C., José M. Capriles, Christine A. Hastorf, Sherilyn C. Fritz, D. Marie Weide, Alejandra I. Domic, and Paul A. Baker. 2021 The rise and fall of Wiñaymarka: Rethinking cultural and environmental interactions in the southern basin of Lake Titicaca. Human Ecology 49(2):131-145. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00222-3 

Labarca, Rafael, Francisco J. Caro, Natalia A. Villavicencio, José M. Capriles, Esteban Briones, Claudio Latorre, and Calogero M. Santoro. 2021. A partially complete skeleton of Hippidion saldiasi Roth, 1899 (Mammalia: Perissodactyla) from the Late Pleistocene of the high Andes in northern Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(6):e1862132. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1862132 

Domic, Alejandra I., José M Capriles, Rosa I. Meneses, and Paula Pacheco. 2021. Plant community assembly is predicted by an environmental gradient in high-altitude wetlands in the semiarid western Bolivian Andes. Mires and Peat 27(01):1-12. https://doi.org/10.19189/MaP.2019.JSP.StA.191 

2020

Lombardo, Umberto, José Iriarte, Lautaro Hilbert, Javier Ruiz-Pérez, José M. Capriles, and Heinz Veit. 2020. Early Holocene crop cultivation and landscape modification in Amazonia. Nature 581(7807):190-193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2162-7 

Delaere, Christophe and José M. Capriles. 2020 The context and meaning of an intact Inca underwater offering from Lake Titicaca. Antiquity 94(376):1030-1041. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.121 

Workman, T. Race, Jason A. Rech, Eugenia M. Gayó, Calogero M. Santoro, Paula C. Ugalde, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Jose M. Capriles, and Claudio Latorre. 2020. Landscape evolution and the environmental context of human occupation of the southern Pampa del Tamarugal, Atacama Desert, Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews 243:106502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106502 

Nakatsuka, N., I. Lazaridis, C. Barbieri, P. Skoglund, N. Rohland, S. Mallick, C. Posth, K. Harkins-Kinkaid, M. Ferry, É. Harney, M. Michel, K. Stewardson, J. Novak-Forst, J. M. Capriles, M. A. Durruty, K. A. Álvarez, D. Beresford-Jones, R. Burger, L. Cadwallader, R. Fujita, J. Isla, G. Lau, C. L. Aguirre, S. LeBlanc, S. C. Maldonado, F. Meddens, P. G. Messineo, B. J. Culleton, T. K. Harper, J. Quilter, G. Politis, K. Rademaker, M. Reindel, M. Rivera, L. Salazar, J. R. Sandoval, C. M. Santoro, N. Scheifler, V. Standen, M. I. Barreto, I. F. Espinoza, E. Tomasto-Cagigao, G. Valverde, D. J. Kennett, A. Cooper, J. Krause, W. Haak, B. Llamas, D. Reich, and L. Fehren-Schmitz. 2020. A paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes. Cell 181(5):1131- 1145.e1121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.01 

Uribe, Mauricio, Dante Angelo, José Capriles, Victoria Castro, María Eugenia de Porras, Magdalena García, Eugenia Gayo, Josefina González, María José Herrera, Roberto Izaurieta, Antonio Maldonado, Valentina Mandakovic, Virginia McRostie, Jorge Razeto, Francisca Santana, Calogero Santoro, Jimena Valenzuela, and Alejandra Vidal. 2020. El Formativo en Tarapacá (3000-1000 aP): Arqueología, naturaleza y cultura en la Pampa del Tamarugal, Desierto de Atacama, norte de Chile. Latin American Antiquity 31(1):81-102. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2162-710.1017/laq.2019.92 

Domic, Alejandra I., José M. Capriles, and Gerardo R. Camilo. 2020. Evaluating the fitness effects of seed size and maternal tree size on Polylepis tomentella (Rosaceae) seed germination and seedling performance. Journal of Tropical Ecology 36(3):115- 122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266467420000061 

2019

ArchaeoGLOBE Project (Stephens, Lucas and 119 co-authors). 2019. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365(6456):897-902. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1192 

Capriles, José M., Umberto Lombardo, Blaine Maley, Carlos Zuna, Heinz Veit, and Douglas J. Kennett 2019 Persistent Early to Middle Holocene tropical foraging in southwestern Amazonia. Science Advances 5(4):eaav5449. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav5449 

Prufer, Keith M., Asia V. Alsgaard, Mark Robinson, Clayton R. Meredith, Brendan J. Culleton, Timothy Dennehy, Shelby Magee, Bruce B. Huckell, W. James Stemp, Jaime J. Awe, Jose M. Capriles, and Douglas J. Kennett. 2019. Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America. Plos One 14(7):e0219812. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219812 

De Souza, Jonas G., Mark Robinson, S. Yoshi Maezumi, José Capriles, Julie A. Hoggarth, Umberto Lombardo, Valdir F. Novello, James Apaéstegui, Bronwen Whitney, Dunia Urrego, Daiana T. Alves, Stephen Rostain, Mitchell J. Power, Francis E. Mayle, Francisco W. da Cruz, Henry Hooghiemstra, and José Iriarte. 2019. Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(7):1007-1017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0924-0 

Miller, Melanie J., Juan Albarracin-Jordan, Christine Moore, and José M. Capriles. 2019. Chemical evidence for the use of multiple psychotropic plants in a 1,000-year-old ritual bundle from South America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116(23):11207-11212. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902174116  

Delaere, Christophe, José M. Capriles, and Charles Stanish. 2019. Underwater ritual offerings in the Island of the Sun and the formation of the Tiwanaku State. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116(17):8233-8238. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1820749116 

Juengst, Sara L., José M. Capriles, Daniela Velasco Arzabe, and Sergio Calla Maldonado. 2019. The first documented case of trepanation from Tarija, Bolivia, ca. 650 C.E. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 29(1):149-154. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2705 

Santoro, Calogero M., Eugenia M. Gayo, José M. Capriles, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, Katherine A. Herrera, Valentina Mandakovic, Monica Rallo, Jason A. Rech, Barbara Cases, Luis Briones, Laura Olguin, Daniela Valenzuela, Luis A. Borrero, Paula C. Ugalde, Francisco Rothhammer, Claudio Latorre, and Paul Szpak. 2019. From the pacific to the tropical forests: networks of social interaction in the Atacama Desert, late in the Pleistocene. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 1(1):5-25. http://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562019005000602 

Tully, Craig D., Jason A. Rech, T. Race Workman, Calogero M. Santoro, José M. Capriles, Eugenia M. Gayo, and Claudio Latorre. 2019. In-stream wetland deposits, megadroughts, and cultural change in the northern Atacama Desert, Chile. Quaternary Research 91(1):63-80. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.122 

2018

Domic, Alejandra I., José M. Capriles, Katerine Escobar-Torrez, Calogero M. Santoro, and Antonio Maldonado. 2018. Two thousand years of land-use and vegetation evolution in the Andean highlands of Northern Chile inferred from pollen and charcoal analyses. Quaternary 1(3):32. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030032 

Santoro, C. M., V. Castro, J. M. Capriles, J. Barraza, J. Correa, P. A. Marquet, V. McRostie, E. M. Gayo, C. Latorre and D. Valenzuela. 2018. Acta de Tarapacá: “Pueblo Sin Agua, Pueblo Muerto”. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 50(2):169-174. http://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562018000200169 

Capriles, J. M., N. Tripcevich, A. E. Nielsen, M. D. Glascock, J. Albarracin-Jordan, and C. M. Santoro 2018 Late Pleistocene lithic procurement and geochemical characterization of the Cerro Kaskio obsidian source in southwestern Bolivia. Archaeometry 60(5):898-914. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12363 

González-Guarda, Erwin, Alia Petermann-Pichincura, Carlos Tornero, Laura Domingo, Jordi Agustí, Mario Pino, Ana M. Abarzúa, José M. Capriles, Natalia A. Villavicencio, Rafael Labarca, Violeta Tolorza, Paloma Sevilla, and Florent Rivals. 2018. Multiproxy evidence for leaf-browsing and closed habitats in extinct proboscideans (Mammalia, Proboscidea) from Central Chile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115:(37)9258-9263. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804642115  

Marsh, Erik J., Maria C. Bruno, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Paul Baker, José M. Capriles, and Christine A. Hastorf. 2018. IntCal, SHCal, or a Mixed Curve? Choosing a 14C calibration curve for archaeological and paleoenvironmental records from tropical South America. Radiocarbon 60(3):925-940. https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2018.16 

Capriles, José M., Juan Albarracin-Jordan, Douglas W. Bird, Steven T. Goldstein, Gabriela M. Jarpa, Sergio Calla Maldonado, and Calogero M. Santoro. 2018. Mobility, subsistence, and technological strategies of early Holocene hunter-gatherers in the Bolivian Altiplano. Quaternary International 473:190-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.08.070 

2017

Osorio, Daniela, James Steele, Marcela Sepúlveda, Eugenia M. Gayo, José M. Capriles, Katherine Herrera, Paula Ugalde, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Claudio Latorre, and Calogero M. Santoro. 2017. The Dry Puna as an ecological megapatch and the peopling of South America: Technology, mobility, and the development of a Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Andean hunter-gatherer tradition in northern Chile. Quaternary International 461:41-53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.07.010 

Rothhammer, Francisco, Lars Fehren‐Schmitz, Giannina Puddu, and José Capriles. 2017. Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup variation of contemporary mixed South Americans reveals prehistoric displacements linked to archaeologically‐derived culture history. American Journal of Human Biology 29(6):e23029. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23029 

Capriles, José M. and Alejandra I. Domic. 2017. Eliana Flores Bedregal (1954-2017): Ornitóloga y conservacionista boliviana. Ecología en Bolivia 52(2):63-64. http://www.scielo.org.bo/pdf/reb/v52n2/v52n2_a01.pdf 

Freeman, Jacob, A. Gil, M.L. Cárdenas, D.A. Byers, M.B. Cannon, J.M. Capriles, and C. Latorre. 2017. Coevolution of climate, demography and food systems in North and South America. PAGES Magazine 25(2):127. https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.25.2.127 

Osorio, Daniela, José M. Capriles, Paula C. Ugalde, Katherine A. Herrera, Marcela Sepúlveda, Eugenia M. Gayo, Claudio Latorre, Donald Jackson, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, and Calogero M. Santoro. 2017. Hunter-gatherer mobility strategies in the high Andes of northern Chile during the Late Pleistocene–Early Holocene transition (ca. 11,500-9,500 cal B.P.). Journal of Field Archaeology 42(3):228-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2017.1322874 

Clarkson, P. B., C. M. Santoro, T. E. Levy, L. Núñez, A. Nielsen, S. Rosen, F. Förster, J. M. Capriles, A. M. Khazanov, M. Frachetti, D. Valenzuela, V. G. Standen, B. Cases, G. Pimentel, P. Lecoq, X. Medinacelli, L. Briones, A. Wink, N. Tripcevich, H. Riemer, E. O’Ryan, X. Loayza, T. F. Lynch, and H. Woldekiros. 2017. A worldwide network for comparative studies on caravans: past, present and future. Revista de Antropología Chilena 49(3):297-307. http://doi.org/10.4067/S0717-7356201700030000 

Domic, Alejandra I., Peter Bernhardt, Retha Edens-Meier, Gerardo R. Camilo, and José M. Capriles. 2017. Pollination ecology of Polylepis tomentella (Rosaceae), an Andean anemophilous tree presenting a potential floral fungal infection. International Journal of Plant Sciences 178(7):512– 521. https://doi.org/10.1086/692504 

Santoro, Calogero M., José M. Capriles, Eugenia M. Gayo, María Eugenia de Porras, Antonio Maldonado, Vivien G. Standen, Claudio Latorre, Victoria Castro, Dante Angelo, Virginia McRostie, Mauricio Uribe, Daniela Valenzuela, Paula Ugalde, and Pablo A. Marquet. 2017. Continuities and discontinuities in the socio-environmental systems of the Atacama Desert during the last 13,000 years. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 46:28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.08.006 

2016

Capriles, José M., Juan Albarracin-Jordan, Umberto Lombardo, Daniela Osorio, Blaine Maley, Steven T. Goldstein, Katherine A. Herrera, Alejandra I. Domic, Michael D. Glascock, Heinz Veit, and Calogero M. Santoro. 2016. High-altitude adaptation and Late Pleistocene foraging in the Bolivian Andes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 6:463-474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.006

Book Chapters, Book Reviews, and Other Publications

Delaere, Christophe and José M. Capriles. 2021 El contexto y significado de una ofrenda Inca subacuática intacta del Lago Titicaca. Chachapuma: Revista de Arqueología Boliviana 10:20-26.

Capriles, José M. 2020 Review of the book Fitzpatrick, Scott M. (ed.). Ancient psychoactive substances. xii, 328 pp., maps, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Gainesville: Univ. Press of Florida, 2018. £90.50 (cloth). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(4):883-884. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13377

Lombardo, Umberto and José M. Capriles. 2020 The archaeological significance of shell middens in the Llanos de Moxos: Between the Andes and Amazonia. In Rethinking the Andes-Amazonia Divide: A Cross Disciplinary Exploration, edited by Adrian J. Pearce, David Beresford-Jones and Paul Heggarty, pp. 273-282. UCL Press, London. https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/152548

Capriles, José M. 2020 Chiripa and the emergence of social complexity in the Lake Titicaca basin. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2nd Edition, edited by Claire Smith, pp. 2326-2332. Springer, New York. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2584

Capriles, José M. 2020 Hastorf, Christine. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2nd Edition, edited by Claire Smith, pp. 4858-4859. Springer, New York. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2610

Marshall, Fiona and José M. Capriles. 2020 Animal domestication and pastoralism: socio-environmental contexts. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2nd Edition, edited by Claire Smith, pp. 372-380. Springer, New York. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_69

Santoro, Calogero M., Claudio Latorre, and José M. Capriles. 2020 Early Peopling of the Atacama Desert. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2nd Edition, edited by Claire Smith, pp. 3455-3460. Springer, New York. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_3023

Capriles, José M. 2019 Patrones de consumo de fauna en el Chaco sudamericano: Los restos arqueofaunísticos del sitio Incahuasi 1, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. In El Cementerio Prehispánico de Incahuasi: Una Mirada desde la Vertiente Oriental de los Andes del Sur, edited by Sonia Alconini, pp. 241-271. Grupo Editorial La Hoguera, Santa Cruz de la Sierra. https://www.total.bo/sites/g/files/wompnd821/f/atoms/files/og_total_-_el_cementerio_prehispanico_de_incahuasi_baja_cali.pdf

Politis, Gustavo, Alejandra I. Domic, Mariano Bonomo, and José M. Capriles. 2018 Modelamiento de los parámetros ambientales de la distribución de sitios Goya-Malabrigo mediante Maxent. In Goya-Malabrigo: Arqueología de una Sociedad Indígena del Noreste Argentino, edited by Gustavo G. Politis and Mariano Bonomo, pp. 289-305. Editorial UNICEN, Tandil. https://bit.ly/3C2ha76

Freeman, J., A. Gil, M. L. Cárdenas, D. A. Byers, M. B. Cannon, J. M. Capriles, and C. Latorre. 2017 Coevolution of climate, demography and food systems in North and South America. PAGES Megazine 25(2):127. http://www.pastglobalchanges.org/products/pages-magazine/10592

Capriles, José M. and Alejandra I. Domic. 2017 Eliana Flores Bedregal (1954 – 2017): Ornitóloga y conservacionista boliviana. Ecología en Bolivia 52(2):63-64. http://www.scielo.org.bo/scielo.php?pid=S1605-25282017000200001&script=sci_arttext