Chavín: Cultura matriz de la civilización andina, 2nd ed. Julio C. Tello. 2019. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Museo de Arqueología y Antropología de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, and Fundación Augusto N. Wiese, Lima, Peru. 505 pp. $45.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-9972-46-669-4

[...]although Tello's abundant drawings, maps, and photographs were left unchanged, they are now enlarged and clearer. According to Silva and Jaime, Chavín de Huántar and the contemporaneous sites were independent chiefdoms in which authority rested in religious specialists lacking coercive power. The picture that emerges is a dark one. Because of the unintended consequences of archaeological interventions and misguided efforts to render the site suitable for tourism, the temple structures are described as an open wound on the verge of collapse from heavy annual rainfall.