ABSTRACT
John Rowe's academic career continues to inform the basic structure of Andean archaeology's explanatory framework. At the time, many of his proposals revolutionized Andean archaeological theory and method. One of his main contributions was a temporal and spatial pattern to "lock in" archaeological explanations about prehispanic societies, such as the horizons and periods associated with the Master Ica sequence. Trained as a classicist, Rowe received his doctorate from Brown University and specialized in linguistics and philology, with an emphasis on humanistic investigation. In Peru, Rowe would study the prehispanic societies through the ethno-historic documents and later develop a cultural historical orientation. He published his first archaeological article in 1942 with the Carnegie Institution of Washington. As mentioned, Rowe was educated in the American cultural historical environment and proposed his chrono-spatial schemes as objectively as possible. In reality, Rowe tried to establish a sequence as historical as possible, with a succession of styles that made a "stylistic horizon" a central concept.
