A New View on the Late Pleistocene Lithic Remains from Pikimachay Cave, South Central Peru
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9400247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juan Yataco (0000-0003-4095-504X, corresponding author), Hugo Nami (0000-0001-7419-933X, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 04 |
| Pages | 282-334 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Discovery (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2331-1959 • E-ISSN: 2331-1967 |
| Publisher | Scientific Research Publishing (PUBLISHER • CN) |
| DOI | 10.4236/ad.2022.104010 |
| OpenAlex | W4312935815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 78 |
Between 1966 and 1972, Richard MacNeish led the “Ayacucho Archaeological-Botanical Project” in the Ayacucho Basin, south-central Peru. Over the last decade, we reappraised the lithics recovered in this endeavor. As part of this research, we carried out a detailed review of the lithic remains from the lowest strata of Pikimachay Cave. We concluded that the lithics from layers tentatively dated at about 14,000 uncalibrated yr BP are human-made artifacts, while those from the underlying levels are not. Because of the anthropic nature of the flaked artifacts, their stratigraphic position, chronology, and similarities with other likely coeval lithic assemblages, the Pikimachay record seems to be a good candidate for witnessing possible Paleoamerican foragers living in Ayacucho during the Late Pleistocene
Archaeology · Cave · Chronology · Early Pleistocene · Geography · Pleistocene · Structural basin · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology
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