Preceramic Occupations in the Orinoco River Valley
- 7 December 1990
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 250 (4986), 1388-1390
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.250.4986.1388
Abstract
Two sites in the Orinoco Valley containing preceramic from excavated contexts are described. Radiocarbon dating and stylistic comparisons indicate that the northern tropical lowlands were inhabited at the onset of the Holocene, suggesting a time depth of 9000 years before the present for tropical forest-savanna adaptations in northern South America.Keywords
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