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Identification and significance of the cucurbit materials from Huaca Prieta, Peru /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitaker, Thomas W. (Thomas Wallace), 1904-1993
Corporate Authors: Institute of Andean Research (New York, N.Y.), Viru Valley Project
Other Authors: Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : American Museum of Natural History, [1949]
Series:American Museum novitates ; no. 1426.
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Peru > Viru River Valley > Antiquities.
Indians of South America > Material culture > Peru > Viru River Valley.
Cucurbita.
Lagenaria siceraria.
Gourds.
Huaca Prieta Site (Peru)
Viru River Valley (Peru) > Antiquities.
Description
Item Description:Title from caption.
"September 13, 1949."
"This field work was a part of the Andean Insitute-Virú Valley survey ... 1946-1947."
"Materials ... were recovered at a site known locally as the Huaca Prieta on the coast line of the Chicama Valley, Peru, at about latitude 8⁰ S."
Physical Description:15 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 15).