The "type site" of the Kotosh Religious Tradition is found at Kotosh, about 5 kilometres from the city of modern Huánuco in Peru [REF].
In 1958, the Japanese archaeologist Seiichi Izumi visited the site, accompanied by Julio Espejo Núñez of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú and Professor Luis G. Lumberas of the San Cristóbal of Huamanga University [REF].