Some Notes on Rock Shelter Sites near Huancayo, Peru

Bibliographic Data

ID7601018
AuthorsHarry Tschopik (Institute of Peruvian Studies, corresponding author)
Year1946
Volume12
Issue2
Pages73-80
Publication date1946-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/275340
OpenAlexW2324344335
LanguageEN
Citations received8

The purpose of the present paper is to call attention to certain rock shelter sites in the vicinity of Huancayo, Peru, which—since they have yielded thus far several types of chipped stone artifacts and bone implements, but no pottery—appear at the present writing to be unique in Peru. The two sites described in the following pages are situated on old terraces of the Chupaca River, a tributary of the Mantaro, in Junín Department in the central Peruvian highlands. They were brought to the writer's notice by Mr. Paul G. Ledig, Observer-in- Charge of the Carnegie Institution Magnetic Observatory near Huancayo, who has in the past made small excavations at both sites

Archaeology · Cartography · Excavation · Geography · Notice · Pottery · Tributary · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Cultural and Mythological Studies · Geology · History · Law

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