Max Uhle y la idea del tiempo en la arqueología americana

Abstract

In this article the geological stratigraphy found by Max Uhle when excavating the site of Pachacamac together with the earlier distinction between the archaeological styles of 'Tiahuanaco' or 'Epigonal Tiahuanaco' [= Huari] and 'Inca' as it was made on the basis of museum's collections and objects brought from Tiahuanaco by Stübel and from Ancón by Stübel and Reiss serves as a starting point. It will be shown how Uhle step by step developed the relative chronology of the Central Andean area, and most of all, of the coastal area of Peru using material from Pachacamac, which provided him with the core data, from the Valley of Moche, the site of Chanchán, the Valleys of Ica and Chincha, the Valley of Chancay, and the sites of Nievería, Ancón and Supe.