Another early use of obsidian in the Andes is the evidence of Quispisisa obsidian in levels dated to ~9000 uncalBP or 8500-7750 cal BCE (Burger and Asaro 1977;Burger and Asaro 1978;Burger and Glascock 2000;MacNeish, et al. 1980) from Jaywamachay a.k.a. "Pepper cave" (Ac335) located at 3300 masl in Ayacucho in the central Peruvian highlands. As was recently explained by Burger and Glascock (2000;2002), for nearly three decades the Quispisisa obsidian source was mistakenly believed to have been located in the Department of Huancavelica, but in the late 1990s the true Quispisisa source was finally discovered in the Department of Ayacucho. Jaywamachay is the closest of the sites excavated by MacNeish's team to the newly located Quispisisa source. It is 81.3 linear km or 22.0 hours walking calculated using the hiking function, while the bulk of the sites excavated by MacNeish were in the Ayacucho valley approximately 120 km from the relocated Quispisisa source. The Puzolana (Ayacucho) obsidian source is located close to the Ayacucho valley and high-quality, knappable obsidian is available at this source, but the maximum size for these nodules is 3-4 cm, significantly limiting the potential artifact size for pieces made from this source (Burger and Glascock 2001). It is interesting to note that, in several cases in the south-central Andes, the Archaic Period foragers seem to have ignored small sized or low-quality obsidian sources that later pastoralists ended up exploiting. The Aconcahua source near Mazo Cruz, Puno, previously described, was not used at the adjacent Qillqatani rock shelter until the Middle Formative (Frye, et al. 1998), and it was not used at Asana until the Terminal Archaic (Aldenderfer 2000: 383-384).

Burger and Asaro(1977: 22;1978: 64-65 )chemically analyzed a projectile point of Quispisisa obsidian found at La Cumbre in the Moche Valley that was reportedly from a context dated to 8585±280 bp or 8500-6800 cal BCE(Ossa and Moseley 1971). The investigator, Paul Ossa, now doubts the Early Archaic context and instead believes the point may be Middle Horizon in date (Richard Burger, 11 March 2006, personal communication), but it is still a noteworthy case of long distance transport within the Wari Empire, and it perhaps involved the use of coastal maritime transport. Using the relocated Quispisisa source in the Department of Ayacucho the linear distance is 846.7 km and by the hiking function the distance is calculated as 199.8 hours, primarily confined to the coast.