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Gold Ornaments of Chavín Style from Chongoyape, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

S. K. Lothrop
S. K. Lothrop*
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Peabody Museum Cambridge, Mass.
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Chavín de Huántar is a small village located in the Department of Ancash in the high mountains of central Peru. Near the modern town is a vast, partly subterranean temple, dating from prehistoric times, within and near which have been found numerous stone carvings of distinctive styles. The name Chavín has thus been applied to a very ancient culture which apparently once dominated the northern interior of Peru and, in places, emerged in the coastal valleys.

The existence, if not the status, of Chavín culture was brought to the attention of the outside world many years ago by Antonio Raimondi, whose name clings to the celebrated stone carvings seen in Fig. 27, b. Charles Wiener has left a description of the great temple at Chavín and the huge dagger-like stone carving that was its chief idol. Plans and photographs have been recently published by Cornelius Roosevelt. In 1919, Dr. Julio C.

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American Antiquity , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , January 1941 , pp. 250 - 262
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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