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The Archaeology of the Cave of the Owls in the Upper Montana of Peru*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald W. Lathrap  and
Lawrence Roys
Donald W. Lathrap
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Lawrence Roys
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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Abstract

Collections from an unusual cave site in the Peruvian Montaña near Tingo María are placed on record along with the circumstances under which they were obtained. The ceramic materials seem to represent two components. The more common of these, designated Cave of the Owls Fine Ware, would appear to have been contemporary with Kotosh II in the Huánuco Basin and with Late Tutishcainyo of the long ceramic sequence established for Yarinacocha near Pucallpa. A date of around 200 or 300 B.C. is suggested. The other ceramics, designated Monzón Coarse Ware, show strong similarities to the later part of the Yarinacocha sequence and probably date after A.D. 1000.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 27 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

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This is an expanded and thoroughly revised version of a paper presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Haven, Connecticut, May 5, 1960.

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