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Although 201 skeletons were excavated from the preceramic site of Paloma, Chilca Valley, Perú, about 150 were useful for bioarchaeological study. The results were surprising, as we found health improving over time with increasing sedentism in this, a fishing village. We used a large variety of bioarchaeology indicators, which have been described in over 20 theses, dissertations, or publications.
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With Frederic Engel, Alice N. Benfer, and Glendon Weir as my co-investigators, the Paloma Project began in 1976 with the last excavation in 1991, involving more than 11 months of field work. We excavated all or parts of 55 domestic structures and 201 human burials, all, due to extreme aridity, in good states of preservation. The work has provided baseline health, demography, and cultural data for the Late Preceramic Period in Perú, the time just before monumental architecture began to be constucted.
Robert Benfer
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This page is a summary of: The Preceramic Period Site of Paloma, Peru: Bioindications of Improving Adaptation to Sedentism, Latin American Antiquity, December 1990, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.2307/971812.
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