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Preceramic Textiles and Cordage From Guitarrero Cave, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James M. Adovasio  and
Thomas F. Lynch
James M. Adovasio
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Youngstown State University
Thomas F. Lynch
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
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Abstract

Fifty-five pieces of cordage and 13 textile fragments, probably dating from the ninth through sixth millennium B.C., are described from this dry multi-component site. Wood and bone tools may also be associated with the textile and basketry industries. It appears that twining in South America as well as North America is the basic textile technique from which most of the others are derived, and that it has a similar antiquity in both continents. Spiral interlinking and cross-knit looping are also represented in the early deposits, and there is a possibility that simple loom weaving may have a longer history in Peru than previously supposed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 84 - 90
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

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