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Tibitó

Altiplano CundiboyacenseAndean preceramicArchaeological sites of the Altiplano CundiboyacenseFormer populated places in ColombiaPleistocene Colombia
Pleistocene paleontological sites of South AmericaPre-Clovis archaeological sites in the AmericasTourist attractions in Cundinamarca Department

Tibitó is the second-oldest dated archaeological site on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia. The rock shelter is located in the municipality Tocancipá, Cundinamarca, Colombia, in the northern part of the Bogotá savanna. At Tibitó, bone and stone tools (knives and scrapers mostly) and carbon have been found. Bones from Haplomastodon, Cuvieronius, Cerdocyon and white tailed deer from the deepest human trace containing layer of the site is carbon dated to be 11,740 ± 110 years old. The oldest dated sediments are lacustrine clays from an ancient Pleistocene lake. Principal research at Tibitó was carried out by Colombian archaeologist Gonzalo Correal Urrego, who also analysed other early sites Tequendama, Aguazuque and El Abra.

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