http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/51659294

Hunting and the origins of herding in Peru

One of the few cases of animal domestication in the New World took place in the Andean highlands of Peru. This study describes faunal remains from a high-altitude cave site, Panaulauca. The prehistoric use of small native camelids (vicuna and alpaca) is compared, and hunting and herding economies are reconstructed. The earliest phases of occupation at the site (8000 B.C. to 4000 B.C.) represent a hunting camp with increasing emphasis over time on hunting wild camelids, the vicuna and guanaco. The small.

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