Show PERU NOT INHABITED BY A RACE OF OF PREHISTORIC PEOPlE WASHINGTON April 4 The Theories Theories ries re regarding regarding re- re garding the antiquity of man in Peru have hao not been strengthened by the expedition of ot Dr Charles Ales Ale Hrdlicka of the national national na na- na- na museum o of that tha t country according to a report on tho the Investigation made public pub pub- lie lic here The Tho expedition covered several hundred miles of ot the Peruvian coast Including hitherto unexplored regions in the We western west em ern n Cordilleras Although a a. strenuous one It proved remarkably ably successful says th the report More than ancient cemeteries teries terie and man many ruins a largo percentage of oC which were previous unknown to scIence science ence once wore overturned and thirty boxes nf of akulis and nth material tor future study tuc were r collected lt i d r for i ii i the i national na i mu mu museum li seum The uThe results result of ot tho the expedition lon says the report failed to strengthen t to be betit o oth tit th theory ory ry of the tho antiquity of oC man in Peru but hut tended to prove tho contrary Aside from t tho h e cemeteries or burial caves caves of the common cast or mountain people and their archaeological remains there was no sign of or human occupation of ot these theo re re- re gions Not a trace suggesting any anything thins thins- older than tho the well represented pre pre-Co- Co Indian was found anywhere and neither the coast nor the mountain population population lation atlon so 80 far as studied can bo be regarded as very ancient In the region they inhabited No No signs indicated that an any group oc occupied occupied occupied oc- oc any of oC the sites for fOI even as long longas as twenty centuries nor does it seem that any of oC these people developed their culture cut cul ture turo except In some particulars In many of or these places Tho The report says that the exp expedition will prove of oC incalculable value I to o anthropology While some of or the links of the chain of oC evidence are arc still wanting the report declares it can now be said with 1 certainty certainty that the Peruvian Peru coast from Chic Chic- ayo in tho north to Lauca in the south southa a. a a. a distance of ot over miles was miles was peopled peopled peo peo- pled predominantly before tho the advent of or orthe the he whites by one ono and the same physical type ype of ot Indian n. n These native natives seem to have been comparatively free freo from general general general gen gen- eral bodily aliments ailments the advent of or the t-Jo white man man- Dr Hrdlicka reported that skeletal material ma ma- tonal which formerly abounded In Peru and essential to scientific research Is fast disappearing and in a few fow years yeRrA cannot bo ho gathered without the expenditure of or much time Ume and money |