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The Position of Pucara in Titicaca Basin Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Alfred Kidder II
Alfred Kidder II*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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This paper presents the gist of informal remarks made at the Conference on Peruvian Prehistory, with some added comment pertaining to Bennett's views on the revision of the south Titicaca basin sequence. Full documentation, and the illustrative material indispensable for such comparative studies will be presented in the final report on excavations at Pucara.

Since Pucara is the only site in the northern Titicaca basin at which excavation on even a moderate scale has been attempted, its relationship to Tiahuanaco and other sites in Bolivia and southern Puno are of obvious interest, especially since the bulk of the Pucara materials represents a culture obviously sharing many of the ideas expressed in Tiahuanaco art. This being the case, the question then arises as to whether the “Classic” phase of Pucara precedes the Tiahuanaco periods, is contemporaneous with one or all of them as a regional manifestation in the northern basin, or is a later development in the southern basin tradition.

Type
Southern Peru
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 4: A Reappraisal of Peruvian Archaeology , 1948 , pp. 87 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 This volume, pp. 90-2.

2 Kidder (1943) contains a fuller preliminary summary of Pucara and related archaeology. Upper levels at the site show comparatively crude remains. Artistically decadent pottery is Collao Plain and Collao Black-on-Red; there is also some Inca and Inca-influenced ware. Decadent Tiahuanaco has not been found at the Pucara site, nor a phase that could be called “Decadent Pucara.”

3 Data on Tiahuanaco materials arc largely from Bennett, 1934.

4 Bennett, 1936.

5 Rowe, 1944, p. 56.

6 See Kidder (1943) for photographs and brief description.

7 Bennett, 1934, Fig. 32.

8 Kidder, 1943.

9 Tello, 1942, p. 123; 1943, p. 152.

10 Willey, 1945.