aloctonismo 17
Theory by which it is assumed as allochthon the origin of the pre-Inca culture, which was believed with an autochthonous development from the advance of Amazonian peoples to the west. Already in the nineteenth century the archaeologist Max Uhle proposed that these peoples were descendants of the Mayans and that they had taken their knowledge to the Andean region, but in the twentieth century the studies of the Peruvian archaeologist Julio César Tello ruled out the Mesoamerican influence. However, the autochthonous theory was discussed again by the anthropologist Federico Kauffmann Doig, who proposed a coastal immigration from the Aztec empire to the Peruvian Andes, and later, relying on new evidence, that of a disappeared people who must have inhabited present-day Ecuador, and who spread their civilization northward and southward. resulting in the Aztec and Inca empires respectively. The name is of Greek origin by 945; 955; 955; 959; 962; ( allos "other" ) 967; 952; 969; 957; ( chtoon "land, place of birth") -ismo . See autochthonism.