A Summary of the Racial History of the Peruvian Area

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Studies of physical remains in aboriginal Peru have lagged behind those concerned with archaeology, and barely enough is known of Peruvian racial history to permit a synthesis at this time. Difficulties are three-fold: first, few physical anthropologists with a proper sense of problem have worked there; second, archaeologically documented skeletal series from Peru are not plentiful; and third, cranial deformation, while culturally of vital interest, tends to mask racial characters. Furthermore, sweeping generalizations from meager evidence by Imbelloni and others have persuaded the uncritical that the racial problems of the aboriginal Peru-Bolivian area have been largely solved. Actually, physical anthropology in Peru as compared to the archaeology is just entering the Uhle stage of rigorous scientific method. Now is the time, therefore, to reappraise our knowledge and to outline future research.

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