NO. l8 ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK IN PERU — HRDLICKA 35 



writer rested on a primitive improvised narrow platform, a few sticks 

 on four green forked poles, and the rest of the night was passed in 

 wet oblivion. 



At this place, with people too indolent to make even a ditch to 

 carry the water away from their yards, with the baby of the family 

 ill with bronchitis and the mother with tuberculosis, it was necessary 

 to stay several days; and each day from four or five to 16 hours of 

 cold drizzle. All this is mentioned merely to show some of the diffi- 

 culties under which, at this season at least, the explorer labors in the 

 Peruvian mountains, and some of the reasons why Andamarca was 

 never reached by the party. The other reasons were, impossibility 

 of obtaining native help and animals, and limits of personal endur- 

 ance. The promises of the merchant proved to be just so much 

 "palangana," an expressive Peruvian word, meaning the saying of 

 a great deal that is never meant, or known. 



Notwithstanding the untoward climatic conditions, the stay at 

 Sta. Lucia was well utilized for examination of the region. The 

 village doubtless lies on the site of an old native settlement. A 

 number of large stone-lined burial pits, unfortunately almost wholly 

 despoiled, exist in the slope of the hill opposite to the northeast. 

 On the higher ground more to the north are stone ruins and the re- 

 mains of a small row of partly subterranean, more or less oval burial 

 chambers, plainly modifications of the burial houses of the more 

 northern regions in the sierra. Farther to the north, on still higher 

 ground, are other burial houses of the same nature and numerous 

 remnants of low stone walls of habitations, as well as some beauti- 

 fully preserved terraced fields or andenes ; this locality is known 

 as Asto. Across the valley of the stream that flows by Sta. Lucia 

 on the west, there are other ruins and burial houses ; and on the high 

 plateaus to the north are ruins of dwellings, remnants of enclosures, 

 and other evidences of ancient occupation. Finally, three miles 

 southwest of Sta. Lucia down the valley, is a remarkable fortified 

 rocky hill, with various burial houses, and with clear outlines of 

 extensive slightly terraced fields about the base, known as 

 Huamanmarca (pi. 16). 



Most regrettably the more easily found burials in all the above 

 places were thoroughly excavated many years ago and nothing was 

 found left of the remains beyond small piles of decomposed bits of 

 bone. However, in the burial houses between Sta. Lucia and Asto 

 were seen several damaged skulls which indicated a type of people 

 like those of the coast, with moderate fronto-occipital deformation. 



