February 2016 Ancient Andean Lectures and Conferences
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Mike R
Jan 31, 2016, 1:13:24 AM1/31/16
to Andean and Amazonian Archaeology Discussion Group
February 5, 12:00 PM
Pueblo Grande Museum 5th Annual Arizona Scitech Lecture Series.
"From the Coast to the Desert: The Relationship Between Environment and Culture"
Archaeology and Climate Change: Reconstructing El Niño on the North Coast of Peru"
Gary Huckleberry, Geoarchaeological Consultant
As scientists watch the development of possibly the strongest El Niño in almost 20 years, the question arises as to how often such weather events happened in the past and what effects they had on ancient societies. Gary Huckleberry will present on-going research from coastal Peru where scientists are studying geological and archaeological evidence for past El Niños and trying to understand their role in the rise and fall of ancient pre-hispanic states. Studies that integrate climate change and archaeology provide context to current challenges related to global warming.
Pueblo Grande Museum
Phoenix, Arizona
http://pueblograndemuseum.blogspot.com
February 10, 12:00 PM
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture
"Bone Weary: Labor in the South American Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100) from a Bioarchaeological Perspective"
Fowler A222
UCLA
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/pizza-talk-bone-weary-labor-south-american-tiwanaku-state-ad-500-1100-bioarchaeological
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Lecture
"Bone Weary: Labor in the South American Tiwanaku State (AD 500-1100) from a Bioarchaeological Perspective"
Fowler A222
UCLA
http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/content/pizza-talk-bone-weary-labor-south-american-tiwanaku-state-ad-500-1100-bioarchaeological
February 11, 7:00 PMS
San Juan Basin Archaeological Society February Lecture
"Moray, Peru: the planning, hydrology, hydraulics, construction and agriculture of this monumental Inca project”
Pete Foster
Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Durango, Colorado
http://www.sjbas.org
San Juan Basin Archaeological Society February Lecture
"Moray, Peru: the planning, hydrology, hydraulics, construction and agriculture of this monumental Inca project”
Pete Foster
Lyceum at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College.
Durango, Colorado
http://www.sjbas.org
February 16, 7:30 PM
AIA Society: Central Carolinas (Charlotte)
"Foodways, Fighting, & Body Desecration: A Bioarchaeological & Isotopic Study of Climate Change and Wari Imperial Collapse in Ancient Peru”
Tiffiny A. Tung
In this lecture, I discuss the biocultural effects of imperial collapse and the effects of a severe drought in the ancient Peruvian Andes, in part to understand the decline of the Wari Empire ca. AD 1050. Specifically, I present the results of multi-year analysis of skeletal remains that date to the time of Wari imperial decline, and I discuss the frequency and kinds of violence enacted against children and adults and explain the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope analyses, which help to explain how diets changed and whether they became more differentiated between subgroups. These aspects of health are also examined among approximately 230 commingled individuals that date to the ongoing drought, ca AD 1250 – 1350. Preliminary data show that the rate of violence significantly increases through time, both in terms of lethal and sublethal trauma. Moreover, nearly all of the 230 post-Wari individuals had been de-fleshed, de-muscled, and dismembered, a highly unusual treatment of the dead relative to mortuary practices in the preceding eras. The high levels of trauma and the desecration of bodies in the post-Wari drought era suggest that it was a time of intense conflict. Dietary practices also changed; there was a significant decline in maize consumption in the post-Wari era, but only among females, and diets became more heterogeneous, together suggesting greater gender and social inequalities in access to dietary resources. More broadly, these data are used to speak to anthropological issues regarding the health impact of state collapse and climate change.
Semans Lecture Hall,
Visual Arts Center Room 117, Davidson College
315 North Main Street
Davidson, North Carolina
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19714
February 17, 8:00 PM
AIA Society: New Orleans
"Human Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: Recent Discoveries Pose New Questions”
Dr. John Verano
A number of discoveries of human sacrifices have been made in northern coastal Peru over the past decade. Nearly every new case calls into question previous models that have attempted to characterize and interpret ritual killing in Pre-Columbian Peru. With this growing sample we are seeing increasing variability in the demographic profile of victims, the ways in which they were sacrificed, and the location and manner in which their bodies were buried. Dividing lines between traditional categories such as executed captives, retainer and dedicatory burials, and ritual offerings are becoming blurred as new discoveries are made. Careful contextual and bioarchaeological examination of these assemblages is required if we are to make some sense of this growing corpus of data.
This presentation will draw on data collected during more than twenty five years of excavation and analysis of sacrificial sites on the north coast of Peru. While some contexts include only small numbers of victims, others involve more than a hundred individuals. One such sacrificial site at which excavation was recently conducted is the largest child and camelid sacrifice known from the New World. Made by the Chimú State about six hundred years ago, it provides a unique window into a previously unknown form of mass offering,. The ways in which it is similar to other north coast sacrifices and the ways in which it is unique will be explored, with a focus on new analytical methods in stable isotope geochemistry and ancient DNA analysis that may provide insight into the identities and origins of the sacrificial victims.
Whitney Bank Presentation Room; Thomas Hall
Loyola University
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana
https://www.archaeological.org/events/20281
AIA Society: Central Carolinas (Charlotte)
"Foodways, Fighting, & Body Desecration: A Bioarchaeological & Isotopic Study of Climate Change and Wari Imperial Collapse in Ancient Peru”
Tiffiny A. Tung
In this lecture, I discuss the biocultural effects of imperial collapse and the effects of a severe drought in the ancient Peruvian Andes, in part to understand the decline of the Wari Empire ca. AD 1050. Specifically, I present the results of multi-year analysis of skeletal remains that date to the time of Wari imperial decline, and I discuss the frequency and kinds of violence enacted against children and adults and explain the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotope analyses, which help to explain how diets changed and whether they became more differentiated between subgroups. These aspects of health are also examined among approximately 230 commingled individuals that date to the ongoing drought, ca AD 1250 – 1350. Preliminary data show that the rate of violence significantly increases through time, both in terms of lethal and sublethal trauma. Moreover, nearly all of the 230 post-Wari individuals had been de-fleshed, de-muscled, and dismembered, a highly unusual treatment of the dead relative to mortuary practices in the preceding eras. The high levels of trauma and the desecration of bodies in the post-Wari drought era suggest that it was a time of intense conflict. Dietary practices also changed; there was a significant decline in maize consumption in the post-Wari era, but only among females, and diets became more heterogeneous, together suggesting greater gender and social inequalities in access to dietary resources. More broadly, these data are used to speak to anthropological issues regarding the health impact of state collapse and climate change.
Semans Lecture Hall,
Visual Arts Center Room 117, Davidson College
315 North Main Street
Davidson, North Carolina
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19714
February 17, 8:00 PM
AIA Society: New Orleans
"Human Sacrifice on the North Coast of Peru: Recent Discoveries Pose New Questions”
Dr. John Verano
A number of discoveries of human sacrifices have been made in northern coastal Peru over the past decade. Nearly every new case calls into question previous models that have attempted to characterize and interpret ritual killing in Pre-Columbian Peru. With this growing sample we are seeing increasing variability in the demographic profile of victims, the ways in which they were sacrificed, and the location and manner in which their bodies were buried. Dividing lines between traditional categories such as executed captives, retainer and dedicatory burials, and ritual offerings are becoming blurred as new discoveries are made. Careful contextual and bioarchaeological examination of these assemblages is required if we are to make some sense of this growing corpus of data.
This presentation will draw on data collected during more than twenty five years of excavation and analysis of sacrificial sites on the north coast of Peru. While some contexts include only small numbers of victims, others involve more than a hundred individuals. One such sacrificial site at which excavation was recently conducted is the largest child and camelid sacrifice known from the New World. Made by the Chimú State about six hundred years ago, it provides a unique window into a previously unknown form of mass offering,. The ways in which it is similar to other north coast sacrifices and the ways in which it is unique will be explored, with a focus on new analytical methods in stable isotope geochemistry and ancient DNA analysis that may provide insight into the identities and origins of the sacrificial victims.
Whitney Bank Presentation Room; Thomas Hall
Loyola University
6363 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana
https://www.archaeological.org/events/20281
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