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Early Sites in the Pisco Valley of Peru: Tambo Colorado

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Frederic Engel
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Tambo Colorado is the name given to a group of buildings standing on the north bank of the Pisco River in southern Peru, 45 km. east of the Panamerican Highway. These buildings are definitely Incaic, but were built on an earlier site, and are no more than a very small portion of a large occupied area extending to the west, north, and east of the buildings.

Both banks of the Pisco River were densely populated during Precolumbian times, and establishments much larger than Tambo Colorado can be observed in the area.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , July 1957 , pp. 34 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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References

Kroeber, A. L. 1944 Peruvian Archeology in 1942. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, No. 4. New York.Google Scholar
Urteaga, H. H. 1939 Tambo Colorado. Boletin de la Sociedad Geográfica de Lima, Vol. 56, Tri. 2, pp. 85–94. Lima.Google Scholar