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Science 22 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3934, pp. 975 - 977
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3934.975
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Megafauna and Man from Ayacucho, Highland Peru

R. S. MacNeish 1, R. Berger 2, and Reiner Protscha 2

1 Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, Box 71, Andover, Massachusetts
2 Institute of Geophysics and Departments of Anthropology and History, University of California, Los Angeles 90024

Crude unifacial tools, choppers, and a burin have been uncovered in association with megafauna in a buried stratum that was radiocarbon dated at 12,200 B.C. in a cave in highland Peru. The tool types, megafauna, and date are significant with regard to the problem of the antiquity of man and his culture in the New World.


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