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On Absolute Dating and North Coast History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

John Howland Rowe*
Affiliation:
Institute of Social Anthropology, Popayán, Colombia

Extract

While I have become less, rather than more, certain of the possibility of correlating traditional dynasty lists with archaeological periods since American Antiquity published my paper on the subject, the possibility is still worth exploring in an area where we have so few absolute dates to go on. In this connection, I would like to call the attention of the meeting to a document on Chimu history which, to my shame, I ran across only recently, though it was first published in 1936.

The document in question is a fragment of the first chapter of an anonymous history of Trujillo, written in that city in 1604. The manuscript was found in Lima by Father Vargas Ugarte and published in the Revista Histórica. A translation is submitted which should be of considerable interest.

Type
Time Span and Dating
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1945

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References

1 Rowe, 1945.

2 Vargas Ugarte, 1936.

3 The Spanish text will be found in Vargas Ugarte (1936). The part translated begins on p. 231. This article was reprinted in Vargas Ugarte (1942). It is cited by Horkheimer (1944) but I do not recall offhand anybody else who has used it yet.