﻿Vol.2] 
  CULTURE 
  OF 
  N. 
  COAST 
  OF 
  PERU 
  — 
  LARCO 
  HOYLE 
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  Remains 
  of 
  foods 
  were 
  found 
  in 
  the 
  graves, 
  and 
  shells 
  had 
  often 
  

   been 
  placed 
  in 
  the 
  dead 
  man's 
  hand. 
  

  

  The 
  various 
  objects 
  and 
  ornaments 
  of 
  stone 
  and 
  bone 
  described 
  

   above 
  were 
  all 
  recovered 
  from 
  graves. 
  

  

  Dog 
  skeletons 
  are 
  found 
  in 
  graves. 
  

  

  THE 
  SALINAR 
  CULTURE 
  

   INTRODUCTION 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  cemetery 
  of 
  the 
  Salinar 
  culture 
  was 
  discovered 
  by 
  the 
  

   author 
  at 
  the 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  name 
  in 
  1941. 
  Previously, 
  four 
  pot- 
  

   tery 
  specimens, 
  acquired 
  by 
  the 
  Museo 
  Arqueologico 
  "Rafael 
  Larco 
  

   Herrera" 
  at 
  Chiclin 
  as 
  a 
  part 
  of 
  a 
  much 
  larger 
  collection, 
  had 
  been 
  

   set 
  aside 
  as 
  being 
  sufficiently 
  distinctive 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  separate 
  style. 
  More 
  

   pottery 
  vessels 
  of 
  this 
  new 
  style 
  were 
  obtained 
  by 
  the 
  museum 
  from 
  

   an 
  "huaquero," 
  and 
  this 
  led 
  to 
  the 
  discovery 
  of 
  the 
  Salinar 
  cemetery 
  

   in 
  the 
  upper 
  Chicama 
  Valley. 
  The 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  type-site 
  was 
  applied 
  

   to 
  this 
  heretofore 
  unrecognized 
  prehistoric 
  culture. 
  

  

  GEOGRAPHY 
  

  

  Salinar 
  is 
  located 
  on 
  the 
  Pampas 
  de 
  Jaguey 
  Hacienda, 
  only 
  a 
  few 
  

   kilometers 
  from 
  the 
  Cupisnique 
  site 
  of 
  Barbacoa. 
  It 
  is 
  a 
  vast 
  ceme- 
  

   tery, 
  228 
  graves 
  having 
  been 
  encountered 
  within 
  its 
  limits 
  to 
  date. 
  

   Within 
  the 
  cemetery, 
  graves 
  of 
  the 
  Mochica 
  culture 
  were 
  found 
  super- 
  

   imposed 
  over 
  Salinar 
  burials, 
  and 
  Salinar 
  graves 
  were 
  found 
  which 
  

   intruded 
  through 
  earlier 
  Cupisnique 
  interments. 
  

  

  As 
  with 
  burial 
  grounds 
  restricted 
  to 
  Cupisnique, 
  Mochica, 
  or 
  Virti 
  

   cultures, 
  Salinar 
  is 
  situated 
  out 
  of 
  the 
  cultivated 
  land 
  on 
  the 
  sterile 
  

   slopes 
  of 
  the 
  hills 
  bordering 
  the 
  valley. 
  

  

  Other 
  Salinar 
  type 
  cemeteries 
  have 
  since 
  been 
  found 
  to 
  the 
  north- 
  

   west, 
  east, 
  and 
  southeast 
  of 
  Hacienda 
  Sausal. 
  A 
  few 
  isolated 
  graves 
  

   of 
  the 
  culture 
  have 
  also 
  been 
  located 
  between 
  Sausal 
  and 
  the 
  origi- 
  

   nal 
  Salinar 
  cemetery. 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Virti 
  Valley, 
  east 
  of 
  the 
  port 
  of 
  Guafiape, 
  a 
  typical 
  Salinar 
  

   cemetery 
  was 
  isolated, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  same 
  valley, 
  adjacent 
  to 
  Hacienda 
  

   San 
  Ildefonso, 
  some 
  curious 
  " 
  hybrid' 
  ' 
  vessels 
  were 
  recovered 
  which 
  

   have 
  resemblances 
  to 
  both 
  the 
  Cupisnique 
  and 
  Salinar 
  styles. 
  Three 
  

   vessels 
  from 
  the 
  Santa 
  Valley 
  are 
  known 
  which 
  appear 
  to 
  be 
  variants 
  

   of 
  the 
  Salinar 
  style; 
  however, 
  the 
  provenience 
  of 
  these 
  particular 
  

   specimens 
  is 
  open 
  to 
  some 
  doubt. 
  

  

  At 
  present, 
  the 
  area 
  in 
  which 
  Salinar-type 
  finds 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  

   centers 
  between 
  Hacienda 
  Pampas 
  de 
  Jaguey 
  on 
  the 
  north 
  and 
  Ha- 
  

   cienda 
  Sausal 
  on 
  the 
  south, 
  a 
  sector 
  on 
  the 
  right 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  

   Chicama 
  Valley. 
  The 
  only 
  other 
  important 
  location 
  for 
  Salinar 
  is 
  

   Guafiape 
  in 
  the 
  Virti. 
  Valley. 
  

  

  