The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-23
HUMAN BONES 10000 YEARS
 OLD AT YALE
Perhaps Even Older Than This-Interesting Results of Prof. Bingham's Peru vian Expedition.
What the Expedition In Search of Scientific Data of Prehistoric Times Dis closed.

The following preliminary state ment of the results of the recent Yale expedition to Peru presented by Prof. Hiram Bingham, the leader of the ex- petition, has been read to the Yale corporation by President Hadley.
 The Yale Peruvian expedition, as approved by the corporation, consist. ed of seven men, including Prof. Hi ram Bingham, director; Prof. I. Bow man, geologist-geographe Prof. H. w. Foote, collector-naturalist; Dr. Hendriksen, topographer; MT. H. l.. Tucker, engineer and MT. P. B. Lam jus, assistant They landed at Mol Iendo, the chief seaport of southern Peru, in JuQe, 1911, and went at once to Cuzco, the old Inca capital.
 The first field of operations was the Urubamba river and its affluents in cluding the hitherto unknown Rio Pampaconas. The second was cross section from the head of canoe navigation on the Urubamba south over the Andes to the Pacific ocean: The third was the neighborhood of Mount Coropuna and Lake Parinacho- chas. For this last Arequipa was used as a base. The field work oc- was divided into three parties to do theological, geological and topo- graphical exploration.
 The Peruvian government, acting on the initiative of President Leguia, gave the expedition free entry for all their supplies and loaned the services of several soldiers and non-commtssion- ed ,officers Through the courtesy of President Taft the United States coast and geodetic survey and the geologi- cal survey, loaned the necessary to- geographical instruments, and the army a complete medical equipment, includ- ing typhoid vaccine.
 Sixteen topographic maps of the re- zion traversed were made by MT kaI tions for latitude and longitude, par ticularly in the valley of the newly discovered Pampaconas river, about eighty miles. long A bathymetric Lake Paricacochas, 11,500 feet above the sea. 1t is r miles iong and 6 miles wide. Its greatest depth was found to be less than feet. Ruins of a primitive civilization were found on it's banks.
 Mount Coropuna was successfully climbed by Professor Bingham and MT H. l.. Tucker, and later was tri- angulated by MT. Hendriksen. Its all titude was found to be. not 22, 799 feet. as given in the most recent maps, but 2I 703 feet.
 A geological map was made by Pro- lessor Bowman, across the Cordillera from the junction of the Urubamba and Timpai rivers, southward along coast determining a number of impor- tant geographical questions hitherto unsettled. A typographical sketch map was made of the lower Urubamba valley from Roas1ina to Pongo de Mainique, a distance of about 100 miles The limits of past glaciation and the present level of perpetual snow were determined. Various cycles of topo- graphic development were identified Clear geologic evidences of past eli matic changes were found especially in the deep valleys of the coast re- gion Devonian. carboniferous,, ere taceous and tertiary fossils were col Iected Evidence was also found tending to show that the great coast terraces had been, not a simple geo. logic history as had been supposed but a complex history including a submer- gence in the tertiary period and a stripping which is still in progress.
 Approximately 5000 specimens of in- sects and non-flowering plants, be sides several hundred land shells, were collected by Professor Foote at attitudes varying from 300 to 12 900 feet in the valley of the Urubamba and its affluents. Little or no collecting has been done before in the districts visited and it is believed that the