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Biocultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes.

Fotios Alexandros KarakostisHugo Reyes-CentenoMichael FrankenGerhard HotzKurt RademakerKaterina Harvati
Published in: American journal of physical anthropology (2020)
Overall, our findings provide the first biocultural evidence to confirm that the lifestyle of some of the earliest Andean inhabitants relied on habitual and forceful precision grasping tasks.
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