A5056169694- Latin American history and culture
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Politics and Society in Latin America
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Indigenous Cultures and History
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Historical Studies in Central America
- Global Peace and Security Dynamics
- Conservation Techniques and Studies
- Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
Royal Ontario Museum
2015-2024
University of Toronto
2016-2024
Northwestern University
2023
Wake Forest University
2019
National Museums of World Culture
2018
Yale University
2015-2016
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
2015-2016
Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
2015-2016
University of California, San Diego
2015-2016
Franklin & Marshall College
2006
1. Modernity's greatest theft 2. How to pluralize globalization 3. Cities and the spread of first global cultures 4. Uruk-warka 5. Cahokia 6. Huari 7. But were they really cultures? 8. Learning from past globalizations.
Since at least the Enlightenment, scholars have linked urbanization to state formation in evolution of complex societies. We challenge this assertion, suggesting that cooperative units came together earliest cities were premised on limiting outside domination and thus usually acted impede efforts create more centralized structures control. Although often became capitals states, was quicker effective where environments kept people dispersed. Data from Andes Polynesia are used support...
Feasts were important arenas of political action throughout much the ancient world. Since alcoholic beverages liberally consumed at many these events, a sponsor often faced daunting problem assembling prodigious amounts alcohol in days preceding feast. This paper considers traditional methods for making certain regions and demonstrates how details each drinks manufacture, such as shelf life, plant maturation, labor demand, offered challenges opportunities to those who attempted organize...
Although archaeologists have become increasingly interested in disaster, collapse and regeneration, there has been insufficient attention paid to the social psychological impact of disasters. Disasters can stimulate far-reaching religious changes. This article is a case study fall Middle Sicán polity northern Peru ( ad 900–1100) that draws on both archaeology oral tradition. cosmology was centred Deity, which did not survive polity's collapse. The god's demise revitalization movement...
In the pre-Columbian Andes, use of hallucinogens during Formative period (900–300 BC) often supported exclusionary political strategies, whereas, Late Horizon (AD 1450–1532), Inca leaders emphasised corporate strategies via mass consumption alcohol. Using data from Quilcapampa, authors argue that a shift occurred Middle 600–1000), when beer made Schinus molle was combined with hallucinogen Anadenanthera colubrina . The resulting psychotropic experience reinforced power Wari state, and...
Despite three decades of obsidian studies in the Andes, extraction zones for this raw material remain poorly understood. The extent and geology sources, their intra-source chemical compositional variation, means by which sources were exploited prehistorically, have largely escaped study. This report describes results a geoarchaeological survey Alca source Cotahuasi Valley, Peru. documented 16 discrete outcrops across an area 50 km 2 . these can be found both as volcaniclastic flows nodules...
Although archaeologists have recognized the importance of feasting in past societies, there has been little systematic work examining high preparation costs these events. I suggest that elites faced substantial hurdles accumulating sufficient land and labor to underwrite feasts. By analyzing production sequence for food drink consumed at occasions, we can better understand some how they were overcome. This chapter, a case study an energetics approach feasting, details certain aspects chicha...
The Middle Horizon (ca. A.D. 600-1100) was a period of great change in the Andes, with much Perú connected through long-distance exchange and widely shared Wari styles practices. Recent research has begun to detail transformations that occurred within period, leading questions about development state its shifting relationships outlying areas over time. This article expands this by exploring temporal differences funerary assemblage at La Real, site Majes Valley southern Perú. artifacts human...
As in other ancient states, Inca religious reform was largely successful because it drew upon preexisting cosmological principles of the south-central Andes. In this case study involving Cotahuasi Valley southern Peru, I argue that during occupation valley, an offering tradition ended, important ritual center abandoned, and another completely remodeled. At same time, local practices continued unmolested. suggest chose to encourage these changes landscape encountered valley caused political...
Abstract During the Middle Horizon (A.D. 600-1000), Wari state extended its influence over much of Peru. One popular view expansion is that constructed a system administrative centers ruled through an idiom generalized reciprocity and extracted, stored, redistributed goods from local groups. This paper considers how this model periphery was last 100 years, argues interpretations fit within have been given added weight in academic literature because they our expectations what past should be...
Abstract This study uses isotope and microbotanical data from the analysis of teeth dental calculus to investigate camelid diet foddering practices at Quilcapampa (AD 835–900). By providing taxonomically specific evidence foods consumed, botanical complement more general impressions photosynthetic pathways obtained through isotopic analysis. Results suggest that incorporated maize ( Zea mays ), algarrobo Prosopis sp.), potato chuño Solanum other resources. The life-history profile one...