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Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago
Tom D. Dillehay,Duccio Bonavia,Steven L. Goodbred,Mario Pino,Víctor F. Vásquez,Teresa Rosales Tham,William Conklin,Jeff Splitstoser,Dolores R. Piperno,José Iriarte,Alexander Grobman,Gerson Levi-Lazzaris,Daniel Fernandes Moreira,Marilaura Lopéz,Tiffiny A. Tung,Anne R. Titelbaum,John W. Verano,James M. Adovasio,Linda Scott Cummings,Phillipe Bearéz,Elise Dufour,Olivier Tombret,M. T. Ramirez,Rachel Beavins,Larisa R.G. DeSantis,Isabel Rey,Philip Mink,Greg Maggard,Teresa Franco +28 more
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Huaca Prieta as discussed by the authors, a large coastal mound settlement in Peru, has been investigated to date back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP, and the community of Huaca prieta emerges as innovative, complex and ritualised, with no antecedents.Abstract:
Renewed in-depth multi-disciplinary investigation of a large coastal mound settlement in Peru has extended the occupation back more than 7000 years to a first human exploitation ~13720 BP. Research by the authors has chronicled the prehistoric sequence from the activities of the first maritime foragers to the construction of the black mound and the introduction of horticulture and monumentality. The community of Huaca Prieta emerges as innovative, complex and ritualised, as yet with no antecedentsread more
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Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene
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Early pre-Hispanic use of indigo blue in Peru
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Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru
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A late Pleistocene human presence at Huaca Prieta, Peru, and early Pacific Coastal adaptations
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TL;DR: In this article, archeological excavations in deep pre-mound levels at Huaca Prieta in northern Peru have yielded new evidence of late Pleistocene cultural deposits that shed insights into the early human occupation of the Pacific coast of South America.
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