About 9,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers buried a teenager with hunting tools in the Andes mountains of South America. When researchers analysed the remains, unearthed in 2018, they found that the hunter was a female, aged between 17 and 19 at her death.
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Between 30% and 50% of the hunters in these populations were female, the researchers concluded from an analysis of burial records in the Americas.
During excavations at the high-altitude site Wilamaya Patjxa in Peru in 2018, archaeologists found five burial pits with six individuals.
The Wilamaya Patjxa female hunter has been identified as the earliest hunter burial found in the Americas.
