﻿THE 
  

  

  AMERICAN 
  JOURNALOFSCIENCE 
  

  

  [FOURTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  Art. 
  I. 
  — 
  The 
  Investigation 
  of 
  the 
  Prehistoric 
  Human 
  Re- 
  

   mains 
  foitnd 
  near 
  Cuzco, 
  Peru, 
  in 
  1911 
  • 
  by 
  Hiram 
  

   Bingham.* 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  American 
  Journal 
  of 
  Science 
  for 
  April, 
  1912, 
  the 
  

   present 
  writer 
  made 
  a 
  brief 
  report 
  on 
  " 
  The 
  Discovery 
  of 
  Pre- 
  

   Historic 
  Human 
  Remains 
  near 
  Cuzco, 
  Peru." 
  Published 
  in 
  

   connection 
  with 
  this 
  report 
  was 
  a 
  paper 
  by 
  Prof. 
  Isaiah 
  Bow- 
  

   man 
  on 
  the 
  " 
  Geologic 
  Relations 
  of 
  the 
  Cuzco 
  Remains," 
  and 
  

   another 
  paper 
  by 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  F. 
  Eaton, 
  entitled 
  : 
  " 
  Report 
  on 
  the 
  

   Remains 
  of 
  Man 
  and 
  of 
  Lower 
  Animals 
  from 
  the 
  Yicinity 
  of 
  

   Cuzco, 
  Peru." 
  

  

  It 
  will 
  be 
  remembered 
  that 
  a 
  small 
  collection 
  of 
  vertebrate 
  

   remains 
  had 
  been 
  found 
  interstratified 
  with 
  the 
  gravel 
  bank 
  in 
  

   the 
  Ayahuaycco 
  Quebrada, 
  not 
  far 
  from 
  Cuzco 
  ; 
  and 
  that 
  these 
  

   bones 
  were 
  brought 
  to 
  New 
  Haven 
  for 
  study. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  a 
  keen 
  disappointment 
  to 
  us 
  that 
  we 
  were 
  not 
  able 
  in 
  

   1911 
  to 
  spend 
  more 
  time 
  in 
  Cuzco. 
  I 
  concluded 
  my 
  report 
  as 
  

   follows 
  : 
  " 
  Notwithstanding 
  my 
  great 
  interest 
  in 
  these 
  prehis- 
  

   toric 
  human 
  remains, 
  I 
  felt 
  it 
  was 
  wiser 
  to 
  carry 
  out 
  the 
  plans 
  

   originally 
  adopted 
  for 
  the 
  Expedition, 
  although 
  that 
  meant 
  a 
  

   hurried 
  departure 
  from 
  Cuzco 
  without 
  doing 
  more 
  than 
  is 
  shown 
  

   by 
  the 
  results 
  presented 
  herewith. 
  It 
  seems 
  to 
  me 
  extremely 
  

   desirable 
  to 
  continue 
  the 
  work 
  of 
  exploration 
  and 
  excavation 
  

   in 
  and 
  about 
  Cuzco, 
  for 
  it 
  is 
  highly 
  probable 
  that 
  important 
  

   data 
  bearing 
  on 
  Inca 
  and 
  pre-Inca 
  civilization 
  may 
  be 
  obtained 
  

   here."f 
  

  

  Chiefly 
  owing 
  to 
  the 
  interest 
  shown 
  in 
  this 
  discovery, 
  and 
  in 
  

   others 
  made 
  on 
  the 
  same 
  expedition, 
  by 
  the 
  National 
  Geo- 
  

   graphic 
  Society 
  and 
  by 
  certain 
  friends 
  of 
  Yale 
  University, 
  it 
  

   was 
  possible 
  to 
  return 
  to 
  Peru 
  in 
  1912 
  and 
  make 
  a 
  thorough 
  

  

  * 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Peruvian 
  Expedition 
  of 
  1912. 
  

   f 
  This 
  Journal 
  (4), 
  xxxiii, 
  p. 
  305. 
  

  

  Am. 
  Jour. 
  Sci. 
  -Fourth 
  Series, 
  Vol. 
  XXXVI, 
  No. 
  211.— 
  July, 
  1913. 
  

  

  1 
  

  

  