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A noteworthy condition in regard to the human bones at this 

 locality was the relative frequency of various pathological conditions 

 of inflammatory nature, and a rather poor development of many 

 of the bones in strength. 



The above was the only burial ground within easy reach of lea 

 that offered any fair prospects for finding skeletal material ; and 

 according to information obtained from various sources, no ceme- 

 teries or other remains of antiquity of any account exist on the 

 deserts between lea and Pisco. None are, in fact, said to be found 

 before one reaches the Rio de Pisco, and especially the vicinity of 

 Tambo de Mora and Chincha, which localities the writer was also 

 unable to examine. 



\ II. GENERAL REMARKS ON THE LOMAS, ACARI. 

 NASCA AND ICA REGIONS 



The explorations along these parts of the Peruvian coast and 

 especially those in the Nasca region, have demonstrated beyond 

 any possible doubt that the population of this territory and to the 

 west of the high mountains, was an integral and inseparable part 

 of the coast people. In every respect, even in the occasional admix- 

 ture of the longer-headed element, this population was identical 

 with that of more northern districts of Pachacamac, Rimac, Ancon, 

 Huacho and Chan-Chan. Its culture differed, however, from that 

 of these districts in many particulars ; but it was not homogeneous, 

 differing more or less from spot to spot and even from cemetery 

 to cemetery. The Nasca group, physically the purest, seems to repre- 

 sent the oldest part of this southern coast population. 



VIII. EXPLORATIONS IN THE DISTRICT OF 

 LA LIBERTAD 



From Pisco the writer took a steamer northward and, after rap- 

 idly arranging matters at Lima, left for Salaverry, 300 miles to 

 the northwestward of Lima and nearly six hundred from Nasca. 

 After reaching Salaverry, he proceeded immediately to the hacienda 

 de Roma in the valley of the Chicama (fig. 3). 



It was in the Chicama Valley and from the same hacienda, that 

 the writer was able in 1910 to visit 29 old native cemeteries and to 

 make an important collection. Over 1,200 crania and a large quantity 

 of other bones of the skeleton were secured on that occasion ; never- 

 theless the region had by no means been exhausted of specimens, or 



