364 ANNALS NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



After discussion of the papers by Professor E. C. Osburn and others 

 the Section adjourned. 



William K. Gregory, 



Secretary. 



SECTIO^^ OF ANTHROPOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGY 



23 March, 1914 



Section met in conjunction with the American Ethnological Society 

 at 8 :15 p. m. The meeting was opened by Dr. George F. Kunz, Presi- 

 dent of the Academy, who introduced Dr. Robert H. Ijowie, sectional 

 secretary, as the chairman of the meeting. 



Dr. Lowie then introduced Professor Hiram Bingham of Yale Uni- 

 versity, the lecturer of the evening, the programme being 



Hiram Bingham, Recext Kxpt.oiiatiox ix tuj; J.am:) ov iiii: ixcAS. 



Summary of Paper 



Professor Bingham's lecture gave the results of tlic expcdilion of 191:2 

 under the joint auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic 

 Society, which had for one of its chief objects the clearing and explora- 

 tion of Machu Picchu, in southern Peru, a city so ancient that there is 

 no reference to it in the Spanish chronicles, and its old name is not 

 known. The ruins were discovered by the Yale Expedition of 1911. 



This ancient city, which seems to have been built by the Incas or their 

 immediate predecessors, between one and two thousand years ago, is situ- 

 ated on a narrow, precipitous ridge 3,000 feet above the Urubaraba River. 

 It is 9,000 feet above the sea, and is located in one of the most inaccessible 

 parts of the Andes, about 60 miles north of Cuzco. It contains about 

 200 edifices, including palaces, stairways, temples, fortifications, and 

 shrines, all built out of white granite. It is admirably situated for 

 defense, and is protected by two walls and a dry moat. In culture it is 

 probably purely Incaic. Owing to the extraordinary nunilier of windows, 

 the presence of three large windows in the principal temple and the 

 evidence of the city being finely situated for a place of refuge, it is 

 thought that possibly we may have here the ancient "Tamp Tocco," which 

 is ordinarily supposed to have been south of Cuzco, near the village of 

 Peccaritampu. 



The lecture was illustrated with lantern slides. 



After the address, a collation was served in the Eskimo Hall. This 



