Late Pleistocene to early Holocene high-quality quartz crystal procurement from the Valiente quarry workshop site (32°S, Chile, South America).
The procurement of high-quality lithic resources is amongst the most indicative processes of decision-making in the archaeology of early human groups peopling the Americas. Directly dated deposits from quarry workshops have been absent of the late Pleistocene record of South America. We present the...
Main Authors: | César Méndez, Amalia Nuevo Delaunay, Roxana Seguel, Antonio Maldonado, Ismael Murillo, Douglas Jackson, Eugenio Aspillaga, Roberto Izaurieta, Víctor Méndez, Macarena Fernández |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208062 |
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