Uhle, Max (1856-1944)
Max Uhle, a specialist in Amerindian studies, is regarded as the co-founder of systematic archaeology in South America. A focus of his research was the central Andean region, but he also studied indigenous languages (Aymara, Uros, Chipaya, Quechua, etc.). Between 1892 and 1895 Uhle conducted research in Argentina and Bolivia, between 1895 and 1911 in Peru, between 1911 and 1919 in Chile, and between 1919 and 1933 in Ecuador. The Uhle Papers include more than 150 manuscripts, 175 notebooks, 2,150 letters, 95 plans, nearly 5,000 photographs and a wide variety of other materials. The Ibero-American Institute fully cataloged the papers in 2003 in a project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). All holdings can be researched in the online catalog.
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