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Science 25 September 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3952, pp. 1307 - 1309
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3952.1307
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Early Human Cultural and Skeletal Remains from Guitarrero Cave, Northern Peru

Thomas F. Lynch 1 and Kenneth A. R. Kennedy 1

1 Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850

An early man site in highland Peru yielded a rich cultural assemblage in stratigraphic association with faunal remains, botanical remains, and campfire remnants that furnished secure radiocarbon dates. A human mandible and teeth, showing interesting patterns of occlusal wear, were found in a stratum dated by a charcoal sample to 10,610 B.C., the oldest such date in South America.


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