Introduction : The crisscrossed past
The beginnings of archaeology in Peru
The foundation (Western) of Peruvian archaeology : Max Uhle and cultural evolutionism
Archaeology and nationalism in the 1920s : Julio C. Tello and Peruvian culture
Indigenismo in the ancient capital of the Incas : the Cusqueño period of Luis Valcárcel
North American influence in the 1940s : Rafael Larco Hoyle and the Virú Project
New horizons in Peruvian archaeology : John H. Rowe and the Berkeley School
Ethnohistory and archaeology in the 1960s : John Murra's influence in Peru
Archaeology as social science : from Gordon Childe to Luis Lumbreras
Processualist archaeology in Peru : emergence and development
Archaeology in 1990s Peru : a view from Lima
Peruvian archaeology at the beginning of the twenty-first century : boom and bust
Conclusion : New horizons for Peruvian archaeology in a globalized world.