Discovery of the Chavín Culture in Peru

• DOI: 10.2307/275457
• Publication Date: 2006-04-19T02:30:26Z
• Authors: Julio C. Tello
• Keywords: Human culture

In 1919, while exploring the basin of Mariash or Pukcha River, one upper Amazon affluents, I found in Chavín de Huantar evidence a culture that, up to then, had not been given due recognition. proved that certain buildings and other products aboriginal art there belonged quite distinctive cycle culture–that stone culture. Monolithic figures serpents felines, representing human heads, stelae, obelisks, sundry utensils, objects decorated with incised carved plane, high low relief, grotesque serpents, fish, lizards birds are main features this culture, whose area diffusion then reconnoitered only provinces Huari Pomabama.