Unexpected discovery of ancient Peruvian food 15,000 years ago

The latest research shows that residents living in the Huaca Prieta region in Peru 15,000 years ago have very similar customs and diets.

According to a reporter in Latin America, the study by a group of scientists from Vanderbit University in the US said that since the Ice Age, the food of indigenous inhabitants in the Huaca Prieta region included crab eye beans, avocado, sweet peppers, fish, deer and birds meat, are the foods that are also very popular with locals today.

Due to the arid climate in the land, the archaeological sites are preserved almost intact, scientists can easily and easily identify objects such as the pieces of bamboo that ancient people used. to knit the mats found in their living area at Huaca Prieta.

Crab eye beans are food that ancient Peruvians used since 15,000 years ago.

The head of the scientific research project, archaeologist Tom Dillehay, said humans lived in the period between the late Pleistocene (the third in the Neogene period) and The Holocene, which are still considered today. being a nomad, for some reason settled in this land of Chile for several thousand years.

According to him, these residents eat a lot of food that includes species living in coastal areas and wetlands, but sometimes they also eat species that live in the mountains.

Although no surviving pieces of fishing gear such as hooks or hooks were found, archaeologist Dillehay still believed that the residents ate fish and sea lions. However, he insisted that this was not a group of fishermen, but that they could only catch marine animals to make food at low tide or when they were trapped on the coast.

The habitat of ancient Peruvians is covered by two mounds called Huaca Prieta and Paredones , on Sangamon's terrace, a flat and high terraces with a length of about 2 km and located west of the Andes Mountains about 15km.

According to archaeologist Dillehay, Huaca Prieta is located between the ancient coast and the mountains, and is able to connect to the sea with a river in the middle of the valley, with shallow wetlands and lagoons. coastal, where residents in this region can find food.

Today, the area is located right on the coast, but about 10,000 or 15,000 years ago, the sea level was very low and the coast was farther away, about 15km to the west, according to researchers' estimates.