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PREHISTORIC POTTERY-IN PERU.Messrs. A. L. Kroeber and D. D. Strong, in a study of the pottery from lea collected by Dr. Max Uhle for the University of California some years ago, pay a well-deserved tribute to the valuable but too little recognised work of this archaeologist in South American, and especially Peruvian, archaeology. In the case of the pottery from lea now described in University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 21, No. 3, and in the case of the pottery from Chincha, of which an account by the same authors appeared in a previous issue, they find that their independent study completely corroborates Dr. Uhle's suggested classification and sequence in all important respects. The pottery from graves in the lea Valley, which lies on the coast of southern Peru, is classified into seven periods, as against the three at Chincha, representing more or less successive culture phases Inca, late lea II. and I. (corresponding closely with the three phases at Chincha), Middle lea II. and I.; Early lea or Epigonal, and Nazca or Proto Nazca. The last named is unique and distinctive in colour, design, and shape. The stylistic development from Middle lea I. to Inca is so continuous that when once Inca is accepted as latest, any other sequence is impossible. The lea Epigonal and Middle lea are, undoubtedly related to Tiahuanaco style, but it is difficult to see that Epigonal represents a decadence of Tiahuanaco styles as Uhle supposes.
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Research Items. Nature 115, 350–352 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115350a0
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