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...lima bean people lived on their flat for more than 1,000 years. About 2700 B.C., 1,000 years before Moses, they disappeared. For 2,000 years the site went uninhabited; then the wholly different Chavin people, complete with cotton, pottery, and many other attributes of higher civilization, set up more advanced housekeeping on the flat where the Chilcas had lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Lima Bean People of 6,000 Years Ago | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...have developed a system of hieroglyphics similar to the Mayan, but like the Mayan it has never been deciphered. Having no records to go by, archeologists are necessarily vague in categorizing Andean art, but laymen may find a certain poetic fascination in the mere names of the main civilizations: Chavin, Cupisnique, Salinar, Cavernas, Quimbaya, Chanapata, Chiripa, Mochica, Tiahuanaco, Chimu, Chibcha, Inca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: TREASURES OF THE ANDES | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

About a month ago they found the first traces of the most primitive Viruvians, who lived in caves cut into the hard-baked soil. About the time of Christ they were replaced by (or developed into) the Chavin people. Step by step, as the centuries passed, the tight little valley's life became more complex. With the Mochica culture (500-900 A.D.), it reached a peak of sophistication. The Mochicas fertilized their fields with guano and watered them with intricate irrigation ditches, one of which was 113 kilometers (70 miles) long. They wove marvelous textiles, had a highly centralized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure of a Jaguar carved in green turquoise in the Chavin style of about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD PERUVIAN RELICS SHOWN | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...School students, who ranked on the honor list at the final examinations at the end of their first year, officially became members of the editorial board last night. They are: David Graham, J. H. Kolseth, V. C. Weinkauf, W. H. Ware, J. R. Kumin, W. B. Persons, R. S. Chavin, C. R. Barrow, F. H. Boland Jr., W. L. Webb, M. S. Berman, R. B. Hough Jr., Gabriel Caplan, F. L. Connard, and H. S. Rudd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 9/30/1930 | See Source »

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