biography
pronunciation:
[ooluh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1944)
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| biography:
| German archaeologist, whose pioneering work in Peru and Bolivia (1892–1912) revolutionized the archaeology of South America. Trained as a philologist, he became interested in Peru while a curator at Dresden Museum, and undertook excavations at Pachacamac, near the coast of Peru, and on Mochica and Chimu sites. He later extended his work into the highlands and to Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile, making also a notable contribution to North American archaeology with his excavations of the Emeryville shell-mound in San Franciso Bay. |
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