A5073939367- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Latin American history and culture
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Historical Studies in Latin America
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- History and Politics in Latin America
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Ancient Near East History
- Historical Studies in Central America
- Climate change and permafrost
- Seed and Plant Biochemistry
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Sociology and Norbert Elias
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- International Arbitration and Investment Law
- Politics and Society in Latin America
University of Pittsburgh
2013-2024
University of Virginia
2008
In the Late Intermediate Period (ca. A.D. 1000-1450), people in many parts of Andean highlands moved away from rich agricultural lands to settle defensive sites high on hills and ridges, frequently building hilltop forts known as pukaras Quechua Aymara. This settlement shift indicates a concern with warfare not equaled at any other time archaeological sequence. While traditional assumption is that resulted directly collapse Middle Horizon polities Wari Tiwanaku around 1000, radiocarbon dates...
Winner of the Society for American Archaeology Book Award Using a bold combination surface survey, excavation, and cutting-edge GIS modeling, Arkush examines social conditions that existed in Andes during this period unprecedented regional conflict provides critical insights into culture war which at time.--Brian S. Bauer, University Illinois, Chicago Arkush's architectural analysis study artifacts is accompanied by new body radiocarbon dates turn traditional documentary interpretations...
Defensive and fortified settlements are often places of relatively dense nucleation by people with few viable alternatives, resulting in the imperative need to establish consensual rules for living together. What behaviours attitudes were adopted defensively nucleated places? Recent investigations at Ayawiri (Machu Llaqta), a densely settled hillfort town western Titicaca Basin Peru inhabited c. ad 1300–1450, shed light on nature social life within defensive community workings distinction,...
Imagery-based survey is capable of producing archaeological datasets that complement those collected through field-based methods, widening the scope analysis beyond regions. The Geospatial Platform for Andean Culture, History and Archaeology (GeoPACHA) enables systematic registry imagery data a ‘federated’ approach. Using GeoPACHA, teams pursue problem-specific research questions common schema interface allows inter-project comparisons, analyses syntheses. authors present an overview...
ABSTRACT In 2010, archaeologists investigated diverse, multilinear human histories and disagreed about what forces shaped these most powerfully. The varied new work covered in this review is organized into three broad themes. First, research on the relationship between people environments included topics such as domestication anthropogenic landscapes, social responses to environmental crisis, adaptation. Second, studying nonstate societies discussed basis of inequality, dynamics early...
Fortifications are special kinds of public construction projects because they must be erected before enemies attack. Thus, their design and reflect the coordination cooperation multiple segments society under time pressure. In this article, we analyze fortifications at Pucarani, a large hillfort in Northern Titicaca Basin, to help understand specifics how were built region during Late Intermediate Period.
As the south-central Andes came under Inca control, many hillfort towns and villages were abandoned in favor of low-lying, non-defensive settlements. Recent investigation at Ayawiri (Machu Llaqta), a fortified hilltop town Titicaca Basin southern Peru, sheds light on how such sites met their end. was 15th century a.d. with no reoccupation little to scavenging afterwards. Excavated house structures have whole or reconstructible artifacts left situ floors, including bronze adornments other...
In the Andean highlands, hilltop fortifications known as pukaras are common. Dating predominantly to Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1450), important archaeological characterisations of a political landscape shaped by conflict but distribution these key sites is not well understood. Here, authors employ systematic satellite imagery survey provide contiguous picture pukara on an inter-regional scale covering 151 103km 2 in south-central highlands Peru. They highlight effectiveness such at...
Review: Warfare and Violence in the Americas - North American Indigenous Ritual Violence. Richard J. Chacon Rubén G. Mendoza, editors. 2007. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, ix + 283 pp. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN-13 978-0- 8165-2532-4. Latin 293 8165-2527-0. The Taking Displaying Human Body Parts as Trophies by Amerindians. David H. Dye, 2008. Springer, New York, xvii 680 $39.95 (paper), 978-0-387- 76983-7. Volume 73 Issue 3
The relationship between sociopolitical organization and violence remains an enduring question in anthropological research. Less studied is the articulation of gender with societies different organization. We investigate frequency type experienced by adult males females pre-Hispanic Andean archaeological contexts, comparing exposure to antemortem (nonlethal) perimortem (potentially lethal) across three categories organization: autonomous communities, regional cultural formations, states....