ABSTRACT
Max Uhle's alleged paternity of Peruvian archaeology is also based on premises already suggested by Stefanie Ganger. Most significant was the fact that he was a German deeply immersed in the then-modern scientific tradition. Uhle arrived in Peru when contemporary science was heavily steeped in a positivist tradition in which the soundness of an argument was based on data-driven logic. In this context, it is clear that Max Uhle had to be the father of Peruvian archaeology because he provided a coherent epistemological and theoretical framework, then current in European and American science, for Andean archaeology. Before Uhle, we had descriptions, narratives, and opinions about the past, such as those provided by travelers such as Charles Wiener, Paul Marcoy, or Middendorf. Uhle's accomplishment is that he merged a Western way to view the past with an accepted scientific method in an unquestionably hegemonic manner from a Peruvian perspective.
