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The Americas from Foraging to Agriculture, 10,000 BC-4000 BC

Tides of History

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How Do We Know She Was a Woman?

A group of hunters buried one of their number at the site of Willamaya Pachia in Peru. There were actually 6 bodies found at the site, but only 2 of them dated this early. The fill from her burial pit contains the vertebra of an Andean deer or vacunae. She lived all her life up on the highlands according to that isotope analysis.

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