Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities

Credit: Isaac Hart and Jack Broughton

Chendytes bone fragments with burning and stone tool cut marks.

« Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities

Credit: Isaac Hart

A team of researchers at the mouth of Abrigo de los Escorpiones that contains a 26-feet-(8-meter-)-deep deposit of discarded shells, animal bones and archaeological artifacts, with 97 radiocarbon dates that reveal a 12,000-year chronological history of human and raptor deposition.

« Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities

Credit: Isaac Hart

A documentarian examines bone fragments in Abrigo de los Escorpiones.

« Ecological tipping point: 5+ El Niño events per century controls coastal biotic communities

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