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New Archaeological Cultures from the Departments of Chuquisaca, Potosi and Tarija, Bolivia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso
Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso*
Affiliation:
University of Cochabamba, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Very Little has been written about the archaeology of central and southern Bolivia, the attention of students having been concentrated on the Tiahuanaco area. I began exploring this great unknown region in 1940-44 and am now continuing the project in my present capacity as Director of the Archaeological Museum of the University of Cochabamba. The present report is a summary of the results of this work to date. The best described Bolivian culture outside of the Tiahuanaco area is the one called Mizque-Tiahuanaco by Nordenskiöld and Bennett which I am calling Yampará. I have found tombs in an earlier variety of this style without any Tiahuanaco influence. A characteristic of Yampará pottery is the presence of tripod bowls which resemble Mexican ones; this trait is entirely un-Tiahuanacoid.

The Yampará style extends to the whole of the Department of Chuquisaca, except for Cinti and the southern part of Azero, and it occurs also in the Province of Cornelio Saavedra in Potosí.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 126 - 129
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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