Show dwelling places temples pottery and metal in peru ruins of about A D discovery ot of dwelling places temples pottery and metal work of ancient civilization have been reported by bi dr wendell C bennett assistant curator in the anthropology department of the american museum of natural history states a new york correspondent in the boston herald dr bennett recently returned from a six month archeological archaeological arche expedition tion into northern peru the site of the ruins he uncovered is near th the town of hus guaraz huaraz raz in the upper part bart of the santa river valley at an altitude of feet between the white and the black cordil leras from the evidence in the tombs su such ch as pottery copper pins and discs and arrow heads of flint and obsidian this people of the recuay civilization predate one branch of the tiahuanaco civilization and the inca civilization Ac according hrding to means method the recuay ruins would date around A D dr bennett found whole villages village containing as many as 50 subterranean houses roofed with tremendous slabs of rock apparently cut from the mountain sides the re chays are built tombs of cock rock slabs fashioned into boxes how the rock was cut and transported from the quarries to the village site is unknown many of the sunken houses extend two stories below the surface and contained five or six rooms on each floor with narrow passageways eways leading from one floor to another and from room to room two temples each having three stories above the ground and rising to 30 feet in height were discovered stone puma heads and statues representing human figures also were found in th the e a ancient village 10 subterranean ubbe passageways eways w with ith single openings were unearthed pottery potter y found at the ends of the tunnels showed they were used as dwelling places |