ARCHEOLOGTCAL RESEARCHES ON THE FRONTIER OF 

 ARGENTINA AND BOLIVIA IN li)01-0ii." 



By Eric von Rosen, 

 StockJiolm. 



In the spring of 1001 an expedition left Sweden, under the leader- 

 ship of Baron Erhmd Nordenski(Ud, for the Argentine Republic and 

 Bolivia. Of that exi)edition I became a member, for the purpose of 

 carrying on archeological and ethnograjihical research. Time does 

 not admit of my sketching here the course of the expedition, and that 

 is the less necessary as Baron Nordenski(')ld has already j^ublished 

 several essays in which an account of its doings has appeared; I at 

 once, therefore, pass on to describe the archeological results I was 

 able to obtain during the progress of the expedition. 



About 3,r)00 meters above the sea, at the foot of the chain of moun- 

 tains that l)order on the west the lofty plain of Puna de Jujuy in 

 northern Argentina, a farm, Casabindo, is situated. The district 

 round, now desolate and almost desertlike, was nevertheless at one 

 time inhabited by numbers of ])eople. Evidence of that fact exists in 

 the very numerous renmants of huts, corrals, and irrigation terraces. 

 These monuments of a by-gone civilization have long been known to 

 exist, and Doctor Uhle visited the place on one of his journeys, j-et, 

 save for Doctor Lehmann-Nitsche''s Catalogue of the Puna Collection 

 in the La Plata Musevnn and some statements in Ambrosetti's essay, 

 entitled "Antiguedades Calchaquies," nothing has up to the present 

 been published relative to Casabindo. 



About 1 kilometer north of the farm there are some heights, 

 formed of a tolerably loose species of rock resembling sandstone. 

 Owing to weathering and the eilect of the Avind, grottolike excava- 

 tions of varying dimensions have been formed in the rock in the proc- 

 ess of time ; many of these grottoes have in earlier times been used as 

 burial places. On plate i, figures 1, 2, we see photographs of one of 



" A preliminary report dedicated to the Fourteenth International Congress 

 of Americanists, at Stuttgart, 1904. Reprinted from author's copy. 



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