Origin and evolutionary relationships of native Andean populations

dc.contributor.authorRothhammer, F
dc.contributor.authorLlop, E
dc.contributor.authorCarvallo, P
dc.contributor.authorMoraga, M
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T01:30:50Z
dc.date.available2025-01-21T01:30:50Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractThis paper represents an effort to explore the origin and the evolutionary relationships of native Andean populations using a multidisciplinary approach. Archeological and linguistic evidence is briefly reviewed. A genetic distance analysis among major linguistic groupings and among Andean and Amazonian native populations, together with information obtained from archaeological and linguistic sources was used to generate a migration model. It is suggested that in the late Pleistocene a group of nomadic hunters entered South America through the Isthmus of Panama and split afterwards into two groups, one moving southward into the central and south Andean areas and after crossing the Colombian, Equador and Peruvian highlands to people northwestern Argentina, the open park country of east Brazil and the Argentine Pampas. The second group migrated eastwards into Venezuela and Guyana and later southward, peopling the Brazilian Amazon. Following available waterways the Amazonian Indians expanded east and west arriving probably at the eastern slopes of the Andes some 3,500 years ago. It is hypothesized that present day Andean natives are descendants of the Amazonian groups that migrated eastwards.
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.issn1527-0297
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/96908
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000170448900008
dc.issue.numero2
dc.language.isoen
dc.pagina.final233
dc.pagina.inicio227
dc.revistaHigh altitude medicine & biology
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectpeopling of South America
dc.subjectgenetic distances
dc.subjecttropical forest culture
dc.subjectAndean natives
dc.subject.ods03 Good Health and Well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleOrigin and evolutionary relationships of native Andean populations
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen2
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sipa.trazabilidadWOS;2025-01-12
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