Andean Archaeology

Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stone Raw Material Provisioning in the Chivay Obsidian Source area (with Alex MacKay), Advances in Titicaca Basin Archaeology, vol. 2 (2012)

Analysis of obsidian from the Chivay obsidian source provides insights into raw material provisioning through...

 

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Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru (with Alex Mackay), World Archaeology (2011)

Results of survey and test excavations at the Chivay obsidian source in highland Peru found...

 

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Spatio-temporal patterns in obsidian consumption in the Southern Nasca Region, Peru (with J. W. Eerkens, K. J. Vaughn, M. Linares-Grados, C. A. Conlee, K. Schreiber, and M. D. Glascock), Journal of Archaeological Science (2010)

Geochemical data from 426 obsidian artifacts collected from a range of sites in the Southern...

 

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Exotic Goods, Chivay Obsidian, and Sociopolitical change in the south-central Andes, Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory (2010)

This study connects household-level long-distance exchange of ordinary goods with research into the emergence of...

 

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La fuente de obsidiana “Chivay” y su posición en los Andes Sur Centrales (with Willy Yépez Álvarez), Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina (2009)

The aim of this research project is to document the Chivay obsidian source, a chemically...

 

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Llama Caravan Transport: A study of mobility with a contemporary Andean salt caravan, 73th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2008)

This talk is about a study of transportation in highland Peru where we travelled with...

 

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Quarries, Caravans, and Routes to Complexity: Prehispanic Obsidian in the South-Central Andes (Ph.D. Dissertation, UC Santa Barbara Anthropology) (2007)

Regional studies of obsidian artifacts in the south-central Andes have shown that over 90% of...

 

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Production and Exchange of Obsidian from the Colca Valley, Arequipa Perú, 46th Annual Meeting of the Institute for Andean Studies (2006)

In Andean archaeology, it is stylistic evidence that form the basis for many investigations of...

 

Fuente de Obsidiana "Chivay" y su posición en los Andes Sur Centrales (with Willy Yepez Alvarez), Por Simposio Internacional sobre Arequeologia del Area Centro Sur Andina (2005)
 

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Spatial and Temporal Variation in Stone Raw Material Provisioning Around the Chivay Obsidian Source. (with Alex MacKay), 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2005)

Research into the prehistoric procurement of widely circulated raw materials provides an opportunity to investigate...

 

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Viewshed Analysis of the Ilave River Valley (M.A. Data Paper, UC Santa Barbara Anthropology) (2002)

This paper explores the potential for using viewshed analysis methods with settlement survey data in...

 

GIS / Remote Sensing in Archaeology

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On-Site Recording of Excavation Data Using Mobile GIS (with Steven A. Wernke), Journal of Field Archaeology (2010)

Archaeologists have embraced new technologies in many aspects of research, but reliance on paperbased recording...

 

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Armchair archaeology, Economist (2008)

Interviewed for an article in The Economist about the use of satellite imagery in Andean...

 

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Mobile GIS and Archaeological Survey, Archaeological Sciences of the Americas conference, University of Arizona (2004)

This paper will describe archaeological research recently conducted in southern Peru where archaeological features were...

 

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Interfaces: Mobile GIS in archaeological survey, The SAA Archaeological Record (2004)

Research needs dictate whether mobile GIS data recording be expedient or thorough, and data acquisition...

 

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Flexibility by Design: How mobile GIS meets the needs of archaeological survey, Cartography and Geographical Information Science (2004)

Handheld computers have become capable of more than data storage and precision measurement; they have...

 

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Viewshed Analysis of the Ilave River Valley (M.A. Data Paper, UC Santa Barbara Anthropology) (2002)

This paper explores the potential for using viewshed analysis methods with settlement survey data in...

 

Ethnoarchaeology

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Review of "The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism" by Barnard and Wendrich, Cotsen (UCLA) (2010)
 

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Llama Caravan Transport: A study of mobility with a contemporary Andean salt caravan, 73th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (2008)

This talk is about a study of transportation in highland Peru where we travelled with...

 

Exchange

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Procurement at the Chivay obsidian source, Arequipa, Peru (with Alex Mackay), World Archaeology (2011)

Results of survey and test excavations at the Chivay obsidian source in highland Peru found...

 

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Spatio-temporal patterns in obsidian consumption in the Southern Nasca Region, Peru (with J. W. Eerkens, K. J. Vaughn, M. Linares-Grados, C. A. Conlee, K. Schreiber, and M. D. Glascock), Journal of Archaeological Science (2010)

Geochemical data from 426 obsidian artifacts collected from a range of sites in the Southern...

 

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Exotic Goods, Chivay Obsidian, and Sociopolitical change in the south-central Andes, Trade and Exchange: Archaeological Studies from History and Prehistory (2010)

This study connects household-level long-distance exchange of ordinary goods with research into the emergence of...

 

Lithics

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Obsidian hydration at high elevation: Archaic quarrying at the Chivay source, southern Peru (with Jelmer W. Eerkens Ph.D. and Tim R. Carpenter M.A.), Journal of Archaeological Science (2012)

We examine obsidian hydration as a means to date archaeological sites at high elevation in...

 

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Quarrying Evidence at the Quispisisa Obsidian Source, Ayacucho, Peru (with Daniel A. Contreras), Latin American Antiquity (2011)

Artifacts made from Quispisisa obsidian are widely disseminated in the Peruvian Andes, but the geological...