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'There are few such studies from the Central Andes region, and this rich new dataset will be valuable for biological anthropologists and archaeologists working on hunter-gatherer lifeways in South America.' Dr Kurt Rademaker, Michigan State University

'There are few such studies from the Central Andes region, and this rich new dataset will be valuable for biological anthropologists and archaeologists working on hunter-gatherer lifeways in South America.' Dr Kurt Rademaker, Michigan State University  

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Jean-Paul Lacombe, a medical doctor, archaeoanthropologist and human ecology graduate, has worked since 1973 in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. R. Riquet (Bordeaux University), subsequently directed by Prof. B. Vandermeersch. He participated in and co-directed the excavation of Paiján burials between 1984 and 1990 and defended his thesis in biological anthropology of the Paiján people in 2000. Claude Chauchat, now a retired CNRS researcher, first worked on Palaeolithic France in the laboratory of Professor F. Bordes' laboratory. From 1972 to 1996 he engaged in the study of open-air archaeological sites in Peru relating to the Paiján hunter-gatherer culture. He holds a 3e cycle doctorate on palaeolithic research in southwest France, and a State Doctorate on early prehistory of Peru, both from Bordeaux University.

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