Word: peruvian
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...ways in which people with different cultural heritages think, act and live. Much help in this effort comes from the stringers, who are usually citizens and top journalists of the countries they cover for TIME. Among them are Bolivian Columnist Walter Montenegro, Chilean Radio Commentator Mario Planet and Peruvian Correspondent Thomas A. Loayza, a veteran of such varied assignments as the Spanish Civil War and the eighth Pan-American Conference...
When the ancient Peruvian mummy bundle was unwrapped at New York City's American Museum of Natural History (TIME, Oct. 3, 1949), the archeologists paid little attention to the dry old bones at its center. They were more interested in the fancy wrappings. The mummy and his extraordinary wardrobe were later taken back to Peru, where Peruvian archeologists gave the bones close attention. Last week they made a report...
...bones still tell tales. Peruvian doctors and radiologists who studied No. 49 decided that he was once a soldier, and about 5 ft. 7 in. tall. He suffered a terrible blow from a star-shaped mace that broke his nose and crushed the skull above his right eyebrow. This must have happened during a battle with Andean Indians, for only they used such maces. No. 49 recovered, perhaps with the help of skull surgery, which his people knew something about...
When the bones had told their tale, the Peruvian archeologists made a model of No. 49, as he had been in his prime, and dressed it in the clothes that he wore at ceremonials. They hoped it would give some idea of the strange and brilliant culture that flourished so long ago in a place where the humblest plant can hardly stay alive today...
This seagoing eyesore had a name: Kon-Tiki, after a Peruvian chief of 500 A.D. who had hopped a balsa-log raft to escape his enemies. Kon-Tiki had a destination, too, but it was born of a hunch and a prayer. Her captain, Norwegian Scientist Thor Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book...