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Recent Discoveries in the Atacama Desert and the Bolivian Altiplano

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lawrence Barfield
Lawrence Barfield*
Affiliation:
Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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Abstract

Recently discovered paleo-Indian sites on the shores of Salar de San Martin in Chile and Laguna Colorada and Laguna Hedionda in Bolivia are described. A cave at Laguna Hedionda is stratified. Comparisons are made with Ayampitin in Argentina and Le Paige's sequence for sites around Salar de Atacama in Chile. Pottery from the Hedionda sites is compared with post-Tiahuanaco to Inca styles in nearby areas of Bolivia. Le Paige's sequence (Puripica, Tulan-Cebollar, Tambillo) is criticized and a revision (Puripica-Tulan, Tambillo-Cebollar) proposed.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , July 1961 , pp. 93 - 100
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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