Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime adaptation
| Title | Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime adaptation |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1998 |
| Authors | Sandweiss, D., McInnis H., Burger R. L., Cano A., Ojeda B., Paredes R., del Sandweiss M. C., & Glascock M. D. |
| Journal | Science |
| Volume | 281 |
| Pagination | 1830-1832 |
| Abstract | Excavations at Quebrada Jaguay 280 (QJ-280) (16¡309S) in south coastalPeru demonstrated that Paleoindian-age people of the Terminal Pleistocene(about 11,100 to 10,000 carbon-14 years before the present or about13,000 to 11,000 calibrated years before the present) in South Americarelied on marine resources while resident on the coast, which extends theSouth American record of maritime exploitation by a millennium. This sitesupports recent evidence that Paleoindian-age people had diverse subsis-tence systems. The presence of obsidian at QJ-280 shows that the inhab-itants had contact with the adjacent Andean highlands during the TerminalPleistocene. |
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