The pre-Columbian introduction and dispersal of Algarrobo (Prosopis, Section Algarobia) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile

• Virginia B. McRostie ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: virginia.mcrostie@gmail.com

  Affiliations Departamento de Antropología, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Ecología & Centro UC Desierto de Atacama, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Santiago, Chile

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3146-3345

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• Eugenia M. Gayo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Departamento de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile, Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, Santiago, Chile

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• Calogero M. Santoro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Alta Investigación, Laboratorio de Arqueología y Paleoambiente, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile

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• Ricardo De Pol-Holz,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliations Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR)2, Santiago, Chile, GAIA-Antartica, Universidad de Magallanes, Punta Arenas, Chile

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• Claudio Latorre

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ecología & Centro UC Desierto de Atacama, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Santiago, Chile

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