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About the disoccupation when discovered |
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The archaeological discovery |
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In his memoirs Hiram Bingham, who, as we know, was an historian interested in studying the route of Simon Bolivar, recounts that at some moment in the process of excavation he had arrived at a deadlock since in several weeks he had not made more finds beyond the buildings and fragments of vessels coming from the cleanup which Erdis was directing. The search for the places where the inhabitants of Machu Picchu should be buried was being unfruitful. But, the day they offered a pecuniary reward for those who gave notice of it, Richarte and Alvarez returned to the campground with precise data about the places where the dead were found deposited. Thus, they discovered successively up to 107 tombs, of which the first 52 were exhumed under the direction of Dr. Eaton and the 55 remaining ones under the exclusive responsibility of Richarte and of Alvarez.
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Bingham as well as Eaton published individual reports on their work and other members of the team of experts - Mathewson, who took care of the metallographic analysis of metal objects; Isaiah Bowman, who made a geomorphological and geological investigation of the site; O. F. Cook, who was in charge of the botanical study; the physician William Erving, and the geologist Herbert Gregory - turned in valuable contributions from the first interdisciplinary project that was done in America.
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