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Llama Herding and Settlement in Prehispanic Northern Chile: Application of an Analysis for Determining Domestication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gordon C. Pollard  and
Isabella M. Drew
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Abstract

A new technique involving microscopy distinguishes wild from domestic camelids in collections from archaeological deposits in the Atacama Desert. Results of the faunal analysis provide additional critical data which allow a more complete reconstruction of the changes in economic and settlement patterns and of the cultural processes these changes may have involved.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 1975 , pp. 296 - 305
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1975

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