LITHICS COLLECTION Department of Lithics The Department of Lithics is in charge of the inventory, registration and cataloguing through the database of the Department of Lithics (implemented in 2000), which assigns codes and characteristics to each piece, allowing easy access to the collections and control of the movements of each piece inside or outside the MNAAHP. Research and preventive conservation of the collections. Registration of the assortment of replicas of lithic pieces from our country's different archaeological sites and cultural periods. Within the framework of recuperation of data on the context of MNAAHP collections, we actively collaborate with the registration and cataloguing of the lithics collection from Ancón-Chillón (E. Lanning), the lithics collection from Telarmachay and other rock shelters from the puna of Junín (D. Lavallée). Also the Paracas lithics collection, put together by J. C. Tello and his team is part of a study with the aim of recuperating the data of the context of the pieces and enriching our knowledge about their chief characteristics. Services Attention to researchers interested in any of the museum's lithics collections and consultation in reference to research development. Curator Julissa Ugarte Garay, archaelogist