Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . -. NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 49 The results of the expedition will prove of unusual value to an-thropology. While some of the links in the chain of evidence arestill missing, it can now be said with certainty that the Peruviancoast from Chiclayo, in the north, to Vauca. in the south—a distanceof over 600 miles—was peopled predominantly before the advent ofthe whites by one and the same physical type of Indian. TheseIndians were of medium height, with short and liroad skulls, aufl. Imc;. ruins of the
Expeditions organized or participated in by the Smithsonian . -. NO. 8 SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I913 49 The results of the expedition will prove of unusual value to an-thropology. While some of the links in the chain of evidence arestill missing, it can now be said with certainty that the Peruviancoast from Chiclayo, in the north, to Vauca. in the south—a distanceof over 600 miles—was peopled predominantly before the advent ofthe whites by one and the same physical type of Indian. TheseIndians were of medium height, with short and liroad skulls, aufl. Imc;. ruins of the Incaic TciiipK ..1 ilic Sun, at Pacliacamac. by Hrdlicka. moderately to strongly developed muscles according to the most important fact ascertained in this connection was that boththe Chimu and Nascas, two of the foremost cultural groups of ancientPeru, were identical and, as regards physical characteristics, insepar-able parts of this coast people. According to their location, the people of old Peru were eitherfishermen or farmers. They seem to have been organized into numer-ous political groups, which developed smaller or greater cultural dif-ferences according: to environment and other influences. 50 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOI-. 63
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