A03-675 "Taukamayo" (A02-26)

This area meets the criteria for a possible short term camp or logistical camp during the Archaic Foragers period. A red chert foliate projectile point was found just outside of the principal site of Taukamayo, a site that will be discussed in detail below. The chert point is probably type 3D (incomplete scar coverage) and it is of a style that is only diagnostic to the preceramic period. This location is a bench terrace that is relatively exposed topographically but, as with site A03-599 Callalli-11 there are opportunities for shelter nearby. This site is classified here this as a possible logistical camp during the Archaic because the immediate occupation appears relatively small and exposed for a residential base, but the evidence is conflated with quantities of flaked stone and pottery from later occupations. The site is positioned at the base of a principal access trail to the high country to the south, and close to the biggest river confluence in the region. In other words, there is not a lot of evidence of long term occupation or diversity of activities during the pre-pastoralist period at this site, but the location appears to be positioned strategically with respect to local travel corridors and the monitoring of the river confluence, and the site thus appears to have more than merely a chert procurement location.