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Top image: Aerial photograph revealing V-shaped chacu hunting trap structures used by ancient Andean communities. Inset; Wild vicuna roaming. Source: A. Oyaneder/ Antiquity Publications Ltd Inset; gustavo /Adobe Stock

Stone traps shaped like a V

Camarones River Basin, Chile. Known. Free

Known. Many V-shaped stone traps were found in the high Andes.

They are in the Camarones River Basin, in northern Chile. A satellite survey found 76 traps, called chacus. Two dry-stone walls, about 1.5 metres high and about 150 metres long, narrow downhill into a pit about two metres deep. They sit where vicuña live. The vicuña is a wild relative of the alpaca. People used this high land from at least 6000 BC to the 18th century. These traps may be older than traps known from Inka times.

People still argue how long hunting stayed important after herding and farming began.

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