Huaca Prieta
Pacific-coast mound site in Peru's Chicama Valley. Beneath later ceremonial construction, simple stone tools and marine food remains document intermittent foraging back into the terminal Pleistocene.
Dated events and their evidence
- 13,000 BCE mainstream
A bean seed (Phaseolus sp.) from Unit 16 calibrates to 15,217-14,221 cal BP, among the oldest dated human presence at the site source
Where
7.9239° S, 79.3069° W
Sources
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.