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Reconnaissance Notes on the Site of Huari, near Ayacucho, Peru

1950; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/276889

2325-5064

John Howland Rowe, Donald Collier, Gordon R. Willey,

Latin American history and culture

Ever since the late Julio C. Tello gave it a prominent place in his scheme of the development of Peruvian culture the great site of Huari (or Wari, as Tello always wrote it) has been a vexing problem in Andean archaeology. As was the case with so many of his explorations, Tello never published a report on his work at Huari and his general statements about what he found there leave the reader in considerable confusion. The authors of this paper took advantage of a flying trip over the Peruvian Central Highway made in 1946 to make a brief visit to Huari and came away with the feeling that even the small amount of fresh information they could contribute to archaeological knowledge would be worth reporting.