Guitarrero cave
The Guitarrero Cave is a cave in the Andean highlands of Peru .
In 1968 took Thomas F. Lynch ( Cornell University , New York ) in the Cordillera Negra in canyon Callejón de Huaylas (Region Ancash ) traces of human settlement that have been estimated to be up to 12,600 years.
Among them were the remains of textiles, baskets, wooden and leather tools, but above all of crops such as beans , corn , chili peppers and olluco , which date from an estimated settlement period of 7,500 BC. Come from BC. The textiles were directly dated in 2011 using AMS and showed an age of around 11,000 BP.
This means that the ethnic groups of that time were in the transition from sedentary nomadism to sedentary farming society.
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Weber: Guitarrero cave (Ancash, Peru)
- ^ Edward A. Jolie, Thomas F. Lynch, Phil R. Geib, and JM Adovasio: Cordage, Textiles, and the Late Pleistocene Peopling of the Andes. Current Anthropology 42: 2, April 2011
Coordinates: 9 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 77 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ W.