Contextualizing a Middle Archaic Component at the Cajamarca Site of Callacpuma in the Northern Peruvian Andes

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The northern Peruvian Andes is a traditionally understudied region in terms of the Andean Archaic and foraging/hunting societies in general. Our knowledge of the lithic periods in the north comes from disparate project reports and a very limited number of previous academic projects. Recent fieldwork at the site of Callacpuma in the Cajamarca Basin recovered two examples of laurel leaf shaped projectile points. These point types have elsewhere been associated with the Middle Archaic Period (4200 – 6000 BC). At Callacpuma, they may represent at least the intermittent use of valley bottom resources by mobile groups whose archaeological evidence has often come from higher elevation puna/paramo zones outside the valley. Here we contextualize these finds within the 250 hectare site of Callacpuma, the northern Andes, and the broader laurel leaf point tradition in the Andes.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25954