An Andean preceramic hunter-gatherer sequence centered on Lauricocha Cave in the central Peruvian highlands, spanning roughly 8000-2500 BC.
Gradually gave way to more sedentary highland societies and, by the mid-2nd millennium BC, to early agricultural and ceramic-period cultures in the central Andes.
Standard English-language survey of Peruvian prehistory that situates the Lauricocha sequence within the broader Andean preceramic.