Book
Pre-Incaic Huamachuco: survey and excavations in the region of Huamachuco and Cajabamba
University of California Press • 39 (4) • Published In 1945 • Pages: x, 223-399 , plates
By: McCown, Theodore Doney, Institute Of Andean Research.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a report of a settlement survey and excavations carried out in the Huamachuco region in La Libertad Department and the Cajabamba region in Cajamarca Department of Peru. McCown also examines the Uhle collection of artifacts assembled from an earlier excavation of Huamachuco. The major site examined is the city-fortress of Marca Huamachuco. McCown distinguishes two periods of occupation (Middle and Late Huamachuco periods) based on differences in wall construction, building dimensions, and ceramic assemblages. According to McCown the inferior wall construction and ceramics of the Late period as compared to the Middle period suggest a disintegration of the earlier tradition. The text includes 23 photographic plates of sites and ceramics.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Metallurgy
- Masonry
- Miscellaneous structures
- Utensils
- Visual arts
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Andean Regional Development
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central Andes
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Theodore D. McCown
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 45000149
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Antiquities