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A rock-shelter in the eastern part of the Valley of Oaxaca which was discovered in 1964 and subsequently excavated from 1966 onwards by an interdisciplinary team led by Kent Flannery. The site is one of the most completely investigated rock-shelters in Mesoamerica and was found to contain a good sequence of Archaic Stage deposits spanning the period c.8750–6670 bc and therefore contemporary with the Ajuereado Phase of the Tehuacán Valley.
The later deposits in the shelter, dating to the period after 7400 bc, show some evidence of incipient agriculture.
[Rep.: K. Flannery (ed.), 1986, Guila Naquitz: Archaic foraging and early agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico. New York. Academic Press]
