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Quishqui Punku (PAn 3-170), Early Use of High Altitude Sites in the Callejon de Huaylas (Ancash), Peru (2016)
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In 1964 excavations at Quishqui Punku, Lynch described a diverse lithic industry, including small blades and elongated flakes, which I re-analyzed in 2014-15. Lynch did not take samples for radiocarbon dating because of severe mixing and contamination by later agriculturalists. Nevertheless, in this study of the blades and debitage, I recognized two fragments of Fishtail points. Typological considerations suggest occupation from the Terminal Pleistocene through the Early and Middle Holocene...