Book
Some early sites in the northern lake Titicaca basin
The Museum • xxvii (1) • Published In 1943 • Pages: vii, 48 , plates
By: Kidder, Alfred, Institute Of Andean Research.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes Kidder's field work in Peru in the late 1930s and early 1940s. This work was done before radiocarbon dating and before a time sequence was worked out for Peru. Most of what is described are the ceramics and stone sculptures found on the surface of various sites, including Pucara. As Kidder writes, 'Our own basic assumption, useful for procedural purposes if its nature is not forgotten, was that the sites here described are early relative to the Inca and other remains known to be late in the area, and that they are hence, to some extent at least, contemporaneous with the Tiahuanaco-Chiripa sequence. The presence of many traits shared with Pucara is the actual basis for the reasoning.' (page 37). It is not always clear when the sites and artifacts Kidders writes about existed (so the reader is advised to use caution). However, Pucara and Chiripa were within the time period so artifacts with traits that are related to these two sites are probably within the time period. (Also see Lumbreras and Moseley eHRAF documents nos. 2 and 3 respectively for brief discussions that included the Formative Period or Initial Period and Early Horizon in the Lake Titicaca basin.)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Processing of basic materials
- Lithic industries
- Masonry
- Visual arts
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Highland Andean Formative
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2002
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937, 1939, 1941
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Upper Formative
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- western Lake Titcaca basin; Peru
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Alfred Kidder, II
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-44)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 43017542
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of South America--Andes--Antiquities