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During the 1950s, avocational archaeologist Aldo Rubini Drago, an overseer at the Hacienda Ocucaje, on Peru’s South Coast, excavated a series of Paracas and Nasca graves. He did not do this for personal profit, but, rather, to learn more about ancient Peruvian cultures. With this end in mind, he kept good records and prepared a catalogue of gravelots. In the 1960s, in consultation with Rubini, Lawrence E. Dawson expended upon this, taking many photographs. Dawson never published his version of the catalogue. In the 1980s, he entrusted it to Patrick Carmichael. Carmichael was working towards its publication at the time of his death in 2020. Elizabeth Carmichael, Patrick’s wife and illustrator completed this project. The Dawson/Rubini/Carmichael catalogue presents some of the data supporting the Ica Valley ceramic sequence devised by John Howland Rowe, Dorothy Menzel, and Lawrence E. Dawson.
Publication Date
2-24-2026
Publisher
University of Maine, Department of Anthropology
City
Orono, Maine
Keywords
Nasca, Nazca, Paracas, Ica, Ocucaje
Disciplines
Archaeological Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Dawson, Lawrence E.; Carmichael, Patrick H.; and Carmichael, Elizabeth A., "The Rubini Paracas and Nasca Collection: The 1955-56 Excavations of Aldo Rubini Drago" (2026). Andean Past Special Publications. 15.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean_past_special/15
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