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Sixth Emeritus Faculty Lecture Honoring John Howland Rowe (10990 words) |
 | Chavin is the modern name of a small town located in a fertile valley on the northeastern slope of the main range of the Peruvian Andes at an altitude of 3,135 meters (about 10,200 feet). |
| Chavin Phase D should be at least in part contemporary with the fourth and fifth phases of the Paracas sequence at Ica. |
| Chavin art is basically representational, but its representational meaning is obscured by the conventions which govern the Chavin style and, in many cases, by the fact that representational details are not expressed literally but in a figurative or metaphorical fashion. |
| Bulletin No.3 (1335 words) |
| In addition, the Kotosh site enabled identification of the several cultural phases which followed the Chavin culture and the chronological sequence of all the cultures from the pre-ceramic period to the Formative period which had not previously been known for the highland area was ascertained. |
| Moreover, the origin of the Chavin culture is naturally related to the investigations into the various cultures which preceded the Chavin culture and therefore those investigations into pre-Chavin cultures which aim at definition of Kotosh and the surrounding area and the research into the temple culture of the pre-ceramic period have an extremely important meaning. |
| Amongst these, the Kotosh Period culture was situated stradgraphically directly beneath the Chavin culture and at the same time we could recognize the existence of several special cultural elements which were connected with the Chavin culture. |
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