Word: tello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peru, on the windswept Paracas peninsula, Dr. William M. McGovern, of London University, and Dr. Julio Tello, Harvard-educated Peruvian archeologist, gathered scattered bones, bits of pottery and building stone; dug six yards down and found the red porphyry walls and courtyards of a city of unknown extent dating to 1000 B. C. Burial caverns, scooped into solid rock like the interior of flat-bottomed water-bottles with yard wide necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco...