A good example of a river terrace provisioning site with evidence of multiple Archaic Period occupations is "Sullullumba" [A03-806]. This site was the only site with purely Archaic occupations in Block 3. It is located up the Colca river from the confluence at Sibayo, and is therefore one of the areas furthest in the study area from the Chivay obsidian source. The site is located on a pronounced terrace edge on the inside bank of a broad bend in the Colca river. Under modern conditions, the area is exposed both to valley winds and by the fact that it lies on the edge of a 40 m steep downslope to the annual high water mark in the river channel.

Figure 6-38. Map of the Sullullumba [A03-806], an Archaic Foragers site showing lithic loci on terrace edge 40m above the annual flood line. Image courtsey of Quickbird DG / Google.

Figure 6-39. Sullullumba [A03-806] along terrace edge above the upper Río Colca. Yellow notebook and scale bar are visible in the center-rear of photo.

Table 6-43. Loci at Sullullumba [A03-806].