At the site of Asana on the western slope of the Andes, Aldenderfer(1998: 223)observed architectural features that suggest that a longer residential occupation of the site by entire coresidential groups was occurring in the latter part of the Middle Archaic Muruq'uta phase.One flake of obsidian from the Chivay source was found in the upper levels of theMuruq'uta phase (XTable 3-4X).This occupation dates to the Middle Archaic -Late Archaic transition as the flake was stratigraphically above a¹⁴Csample that dated to 6040 ± 90 bp (Beta-24634; 5210-4720 BCE).

At the rock shelter of Sumbay SU-3 obsidian was recovered from excavation levels that date to as far back as the transition between the Middle and Late Archaic (SectionX3.4.3X).