Our Mission

(a) To stimulate, guide, direct and conduct research work in archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology and anthropology generally, in Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and other countries in the Andean region.

(b) To furnish scholarships to distinguished and worthy students of anthropology for the purpose of carrying on anthropological re¬search in the Andean countries.

(c) To publish results of anthropological research conducted in the Andean countries.

(d) To receive funds from donors wishing to contribute to the development of learning in the field of anthropology so far as it pertains to the Andean countries.

(e) To do all things incidental or necessary to achieve the foregoing purposes.