XXIX International Congress of Americanists

Abstract

Between September 5 and 12, 1949, this great contest was held in New York City, having as its headquarters the prestigious Museum of Natural History and under the auspices of the Viking Fund, which provided invaluable support to them. Janizers. Professor Alfoed 'L. Kroeber was elected president, by acclamation, and Professor Alfred V. Kidder, secretary general, two venerable figures of American Anthropology. The following works referred to Peru: ancient man in South America by Th Me Cown ; great artistic styles of South America by Dr. AL Kroeber; comparative studies in Peru by WC Bennett; Pre-ceramic periods by Junius Bird; ceramics by HU Doering; metallurgy by SK Lothrop, pre-Columbian survivals by LE Valcárcel; Colonial and republican population and their mixtures, by George Kubler; on identification of the i, nd, by H. Tschopík; socioeconomic patterns by Gordon Willey; basis of high cultures by J. Jiión Caama no; Colonial Portraits of Noble Indians by J. H. Rowe; altitude physiological anthropology by Carlos Monge; on the chimus, by Gerdt Kutscher; Tumbes Archeology by George Petersen; on a rare bonnet, by H. Newell Wardle; the ancient Lambayeque irrigation system, by Paul Kosok; population and ceremonial centers in Norperú, by Richard P. Schaedel; study on ceramics by A. Digby; Peruvian prehistoric times, by Rafael Larco Hoyle; the needs of archeology. Peruvian and unknown types of ceramics, by Jorge C. Muelle; chronological position of the Paracas culture, by Rebeca Carrión Cachot; Folkcultur: l. of the Amazon, by Charles Wagley: mixture of cultures in the Andean area, by Gabriel Escobar; Archeology of Saint Helena, by G. H. S. Bushnell; excavations in the Amazon area, by Clifford Evans and Betty Meggers; possible relations between Sechin and Monte .Ailbán, by Emilio Remero.