Max Uhle

Friedrich Max Uhle published the first papers on Peruvian archaeology as early as 1892. While his earliest work was with the Konigliches Museum fur Völkerkunde in Berlin, he later moved to the United States and conducted expeditions under the auspices of the American Exploration Society in Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. These have extended from Equador to southern Chile.
It was at the University of Pennsylvannia that he met Phoebe Hearst, a noted philantropist, who sponsored one of his explorations and then enticed him to join the new University of California Museum of Anthropology, which she had just founded in San Francisco.