Piki Mach'ay - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Piki Mach'ay - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Piki Mach'ay (Quechua piki flea, mach'ay cave,Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) "flea cave", also spelled Pikimachay, Piquimachay, where machay means "drunkenness", "to get drunk" or "a spindle packed with thread") is an archaeological site in the Ayacucho Valley of Peru. Radiocarbon dates from this cave give a human presence ranging from 22,200 to 14,700 years ago,Jefferson 29 but this evidence has been disputed and a more conservative date 12,000 years BCE seems possible.Duccio Bonavia, Perú, hombre e historia, vol. I, p. 89. Read more on Wikipedia
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