A TINY BRONZE BE;i,I. 



A SMALL BRONZE BELL 



A BRONZE PLUMBOB 



A SILVER PLUMBOB 



All these objects, found at Macliu Picchu, are 

 pictured iJ4 times natural size 



remains of women and effeminate men, 

 I am inclined to believe that we have at 

 Machu Picchu the Vilcabamba-the-Old of 

 Calancha's chronicle. 



Now the question remains. Does the 

 archeological evidence tend to support or 

 destroy this theory? 



In the caves where the skeletal ma- 

 terial was found we secured a large num- 

 ber of broken pieces of pottery and a few 

 that were not broken. These are shown 

 on pages 210-214. They are of the type 

 usually called the Ciisco style and ac- 

 cepted as the sort of pottery commonly 

 used by the Incas. In the excavations 

 in the older part of the city itself frag- 

 ments of other types were found, repre- 

 sented by the brazier on page 206, which 

 appear to belong to an earlier culture 

 than the Inca. 



In addition to the evidence of the pot- 

 tery, we have the evidence of the build- 

 ings, which clearly appear to have been 

 built in two distinct periods. Some of 

 the photographs in my previous article 

 (April, 1913) give abundant evidence to 

 even the most casual observer of the fact 

 that the lower portion is of finer con- 

 struction than the upper. 



Examination of the ruins of the fairly 

 recent Inca cities on the islands of Lake 

 Titicaca, where few of the structures 

 are earlier than 1300 A. D., and of the. 

 ruins of the palace of A'itcos, a palace 

 built probably about 1540, shows that the 

 Incas in their later construction used a 

 considerable amount of clay and mud in 

 filling in the chinks of the walls, thus 

 obviating the necessity of laboriouslv 

 shaping the stone blocks with anything 

 like the precision used by their distant 

 ancestors, the megalithic folk. Several 

 pictures of houses at Machu Picchu ap- 

 pearing in my previous article show an- 

 cient terrace walls, on which are built 

 typical Inca houses. 



A SUMMARY OE EVIDENCE 



Is it possible that at i\Iachu Picchu 

 we have the ruins of Tampu-tocco, the 

 "cradle of the Incas," the birthplace of 

 JManco Ccapac, the first Inca ; and also 

 the ruins of A'ilcabamba-the-Old, the 

 sacred city of one of the last Incas and 

 the home of his women and priests? 



Let us take into consideration the fol- 

 lowing facts : First, in the buildings and 

 walls of Alachu Picchu we have two 



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