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John Howland Rowe
John Howland Rowe was an American archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was one of the founders of modern Andean studies. Working from Spanish chronicles, notably Miguel Cabello de Balboa, he set out the widely used chronology of Inca expansion beginning with Pachacuti around 1438, and he devised a framework of periods for Andean archaeology.
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