NO. 18 ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN PERL' — HRDLICKA \J 



proved to be a party of railroad laborers, who came out under the 

 direction of their foreman, to engage in their usual Sunday recrea- 

 tion of digging for pottery. Upon our questions as to who permitted 

 them to do such work, the foreman met us only with indignitii 

 but later on, from apprehension, he became more civil and eventually, 

 in the afternoon, finding that after he had loaded his men and his 

 spoil some room was left on the car, he transported us, at a break- 

 neck rate, to one of the w-ooden shacks built by the railroad for the 

 accommodation of the laborers. Here my companion was taken ill ; 

 however, we spent another night on the sands and the next morning 

 were taken back to Huaral. 



The skeletal material recovered at " Kilometer 98 " proved to be 

 in all important respects like that from Ancon. An interesting speci- 

 men, the first of the kind met with by the writer along the coast, was 

 one skull with the Aymara type of deformation. A large majority 

 of the remaining crania presented a more or less marked fronto- 

 occipital flattening. The few that were not deformed or were 

 deformed to only a small degree, showed the ordinary brachycephalic 

 type of the coast people. In regard to pathology about the same 

 conditions prevailed as at Ancon. 



The J 'alley of Huacho. — This extensive well-watered valley or 

 rather low plain, was doubtless quite as thickly peopled before and 

 early after the arrival of the white man as it is at this day. The 

 proofs of this are seen in the numerous ruins, mounds or huacas, 

 and old cemeteries. The ruins, of the adobe-block type, are found 

 generally on the deserts outside of the cultivable grounds. The more 

 important ones are located at the Pampa Industria, along the north- 

 western border of the valley in the direction of Begeta, and in the 

 neighborhood of the hacienda of Yilcahuaura. Huacas, which as 

 a rule enclose adobe structures, are especially in evidence in the 

 vicinity and to the east of Huaura. The cemeteries finally are located 

 in numerous places along the edge of the sandy deserts surrounding 

 the valley, especially to the southward, and some are of considerable 

 extent. 



The burial grounds examined were, one just south of the rail- 

 road line at Km. 140; one just to the east of the last curve of the rail- 

 road line before it enters Huacho ; three or four extensive ones to 

 the southeast of the valley in the direction of Agua Dulce and San 



1 It is only just to the railroad authorities to state that when they found 

 what happened, they promptly stopped the wanton destruction. 



