THE PAIJAN COMPLEX, PAMPA DE CUPISNIQUE, PERU

Abstract

Since its discovery by Larco and Bird,1 the Paij?n complex has been alluded to in the Peruvian archaeological literature but until recently has received very little attention from scholars, so that no precise description of the tool assemblages was available. Recently, Paul P. Ossa has presented abundant and precise data on various aspects of the Paij?n occupation of the Moche Valley, an area some 50 km. south of Paij?n, where no previous indication of this industry was known.2 A consistent set of radiocarbon age determinations places this complex earlier than was generally thought.3 The tool assemblage comprises a variety of long stemmed projectile points, bifacials, sidescrapers?some of them similar to the European Mousterian limaces11 or slugs?denticu lates and pebble tools. Unlike the industry from Lauricocha and other related sites of the Central Andes from Guitarrero to the Ayacucho area, the Moche Valley lithic assemblages have no endscraper.

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