Paleoindian settlement of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes

Author:

Rademaker Kurt123,Hodgins Gregory4,Moore Katherine5,Zarrillo Sonia6,Miller Christopher78,Bromley Gordon R. M.3,Leach Peter9,Reid David A.10,Álvarez Willy Yépez11,Sandweiss Daniel H.13

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology, South Stevens Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5773, USA.

2. Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Schloß Hohentübingen, Burgsteige 11, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

3. Climate Change Institute, Bryand Global Sciences Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA.

4. Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, Department of Physics and School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.

5. University of Pennsylvania Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.

6. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Earth Sciences Building, Room 806, 844 Campus Place Northwest, Calgary, British Columbia, Canada.

7. Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

8. Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen, Rümelinstrasse 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany.

9. Department of Anthropology, 354 Mansfield Road, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-1176, USA.

10. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7139, USA.

11. Arequipa, Peru.

Abstract

Mountain dwellers of the Pleistocene Humans colonized the inhospitable high Andes at least 11.5 thousand years ago. Rademaker et al. unearthed evidence of hunter-gatherer occupation at heights of almost 4500 m in Peru in two open-air sites. The sites contained more than 750 tools, including likely spearheads and scrapers. A nearby rockshelter with sooted ceilings and floor detritus may have been a campsite. The sites were probably used seasonally for hunting vicuña and other high-altitude prey. Science , this issue p. 466

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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