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(Abridged) We have identified a population of faint red galaxies from a 0.62square degree region of the Las Campanas Infrared Survey whose properties areconsistent with their being the progenitors of early-type galaxies. The opticaland IR colors, number-magnitude relation and angular clustering togetherindicate modest evolution and increased star formation rates among theearly-type field population at redshifts between one and two. The counts of redgalaxies with $H$ magnitudes between 17 and 20 rise with a slope that is muchsteeper than that of the total H sample. The surface density of red galaxiesdrops from roughly 3000 per square degree at H = 20.5, I-H > 3 to ~ 20 persquare degree at H = 20, I-H > 5. The V-I colors are approximately 1.5magnitudes bluer on average than a pure old population and span a range of morethan three magnitudes. The colors, and photometric redshifts derived from them,indicate that the red galaxies have redshift distributions adequately describedby Gaussians with sigma_z ~ 0.2$ centered near redshift one, with the exceptionthat galaxies having $V-I<1.6$ and $I-H>3$ are primarily in the 1.5 < z < 2range. We find co-moving correlation lengths of 9-10 Mpc at z ~ 1, comparableto, or larger than, those found for early-type galaxies at lower redshifts. Asimple photometric evolution model reproduces the counts of the red galaxies,with only a ~ 30% decline in the underlying space density of early-typegalaxies at z ~ 1.2. We suggest on the basis of the colors, counts, andclustering that these red galaxies are the bulk of the progenitors of presentday early-type galaxies.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the ApJ Letter

The Las Campanas Infrared Survey: Early-Type Galaxy Progenitors beyond [CLC][ITAL]z[/ITAL][/CLC] = 1