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ID: 7026149 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026149			Record Type: administrative

Quebrada Tacahuay (archaeological site)

Note: On the S coast; pre-Clovis site with evidence of early maritime subsistence & possible coastal migration; earliest level dates to ca. 10,000 yrs BCE; important site because most similar sites were covered by the rising sea during the last Ice Age.

Names:

Quebrada Tacahuay (preferred,C,V)

Tacahuay Canyon (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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South America (continent) (P)

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Peru (nation) (P)

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Tacna (region (administrative division)) (P)

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Quebrada Tacahuay (archaeological site) (P)

Place Types:

archaeological site (preferred, C)
prehistoric site (C)
camp (H)

Sources and Contributors:

Quebrada Tacahuay..........	[VP Preferred]
................................	Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (2000)
................................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
................................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
................................	Schuster, Mariners in Peru, Archaeology (1998)

Tacahuay Canyon..........	[VP]
.............................	Schuster, Mariners in Peru, Archaeology (1998)

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (2000)
..................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002)
..................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (2000-2003)
..................	Schuster, Mariners in Peru, Archaeology (1998)


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English	..........	[VP]

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