Quebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime adaptation

TitleQuebrada Jaguay: Early South American Maritime adaptation
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication1998
AuthorsSandweiss, D., McInnis H., Burger R. L., Cano A., Ojeda B., Paredes R., del Sandweiss M. C., & Glascock M. D.
JournalScience
Volume281
Pagination1830-1832
AbstractExcavations at Quebrada Jaguay 280 (QJ-280) (16¡309S) in south coastalPeru demonstrated that Paleoindian-age people of the Terminal Pleistocene(about 11,100 to 10,000 carbon-14 years before the present or about13,000 to 11,000 calibrated years before the present) in South Americarelied on marine resources while resident on the coast, which extends theSouth American record of maritime exploitation by a millennium. This sitesupports recent evidence that Paleoindian-age people had diverse subsis-tence systems. The presence of obsidian at QJ-280 shows that the inhab-itants had contact with the adjacent Andean highlands during the TerminalPleistocene.