March 2016 Ancient Andean Lectures and Exhibit
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Mike R
Mar 1, 2016, 12:36:09 AM3/1/16
to Andean and Amazonian Archaeology Discussion Group
March 4, 6:45 PM
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC March Lecture
"Houses for the Living, Houses for the Dead: Mortuary Feasts and Social Inequality at a Post-collapse Andean Necropolis (AD 1000-1450)”
Erika Brant, PhD candidate
The collapse of the highland state of Tiwanaku around AD 1000 was accompanied by a dramatic uprising against the ruling elite. Elite ancestor effigies placed in large open plazas were iconoclastically disfigured, while the Putuni Palace, home to Tiwanaku’s ruling dynasty, was leveled. In the post-collapse period, Titicaca basin peoples abandoned the symbols of Tiwanaku’s authority. A 1500-year tradition of ritual architecture and craft goods disappeared, and ritual practice turned to the worship of ancestors placed in modest burial towers, or chullpas. Does such a transition in ritual architecture and the rejection of state-affiliated material culture signal a reinvention or, conversely, a rejection, of hierarchy in the post-collapse period? Excavations conducted at the post-collapse Colla necropolis and pilgrimage center of Sillustani revealed a series of kin-focused ritual compounds as well as a previously understudied domestic sector characterized by multiple elite houses. In addition, ceramic and architectural findings indicate a more segmented, and possibly situational, role of leadership during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1450).
Ms. Erika Brant currently is a doctoral student at the University of Virginia and a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. Her research centers on such themes as post-collapse reorganization, the intersection of ecology and religion, and, recently, the impact of ancestor veneration on social hierarchy in the Andes. Ms. Brant’s research began in northern Chile, where she considered how the collapse of the Tiwanaku state was articulated in the ritual landscape of the Tarapaca Valley. In 2009, Ms. Brant shifted her regional focus to Peru’s Titicaca Basin where populations were more directly affected by state control and collapse. Three field seasons of mapping and excavation were conducted at the site of Sillustani, the foremost necropolis of the post-collapse Colla ethnic group. Examining the transition from Tiwanaku’s monumental ancestor effigies to modest above-ground burial towers in the post-collapse era, Ms. Brant’s dissertation considers whether such a transition reflects a repackaging of old, centralizing forms of authority based on descent from apical ancestors or, conversely, indicates a strengthening of local interests and wariness of centralized leadership.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org
March 9, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"Sex and Human Sacrifice at the Moche Huacas”
James Kus
The Moche culture dominated northern coastal Peru from about the time of Christ to about 800 A.D. For more than a century, our knowledge of the Moche came mainly from the study of their ceramics, which are among the best in the ancient world – both as sculptural models and as surfaces on which elaborate scenes were painted. Among the subjects shown on the Moche ceramics are detailed sexual scenes as well as evidence of human sacrifice. Since the late 1980s, however, impressive new archaeological excavations at a number of major Moche sites have added much to our knowledge of the Moche culture. This talk will summarize much of the recent material that gives us new insights into this fascinating culture.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive
Cleveland, Ohio
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19718
Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC March Lecture
"Houses for the Living, Houses for the Dead: Mortuary Feasts and Social Inequality at a Post-collapse Andean Necropolis (AD 1000-1450)”
Erika Brant, PhD candidate
The collapse of the highland state of Tiwanaku around AD 1000 was accompanied by a dramatic uprising against the ruling elite. Elite ancestor effigies placed in large open plazas were iconoclastically disfigured, while the Putuni Palace, home to Tiwanaku’s ruling dynasty, was leveled. In the post-collapse period, Titicaca basin peoples abandoned the symbols of Tiwanaku’s authority. A 1500-year tradition of ritual architecture and craft goods disappeared, and ritual practice turned to the worship of ancestors placed in modest burial towers, or chullpas. Does such a transition in ritual architecture and the rejection of state-affiliated material culture signal a reinvention or, conversely, a rejection, of hierarchy in the post-collapse period? Excavations conducted at the post-collapse Colla necropolis and pilgrimage center of Sillustani revealed a series of kin-focused ritual compounds as well as a previously understudied domestic sector characterized by multiple elite houses. In addition, ceramic and architectural findings indicate a more segmented, and possibly situational, role of leadership during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1000–1450).
Ms. Erika Brant currently is a doctoral student at the University of Virginia and a Junior Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks. Her research centers on such themes as post-collapse reorganization, the intersection of ecology and religion, and, recently, the impact of ancestor veneration on social hierarchy in the Andes. Ms. Brant’s research began in northern Chile, where she considered how the collapse of the Tiwanaku state was articulated in the ritual landscape of the Tarapaca Valley. In 2009, Ms. Brant shifted her regional focus to Peru’s Titicaca Basin where populations were more directly affected by state control and collapse. Three field seasons of mapping and excavation were conducted at the site of Sillustani, the foremost necropolis of the post-collapse Colla ethnic group. Examining the transition from Tiwanaku’s monumental ancestor effigies to modest above-ground burial towers in the post-collapse era, Ms. Brant’s dissertation considers whether such a transition reflects a repackaging of old, centralizing forms of authority based on descent from apical ancestors or, conversely, indicates a strengthening of local interests and wariness of centralized leadership.
Sumner School
17th & M Streets, N.W.
Washington DC
http://www.pcswdc.org
March 9, 7:30 PM
AIA Lecture
"Sex and Human Sacrifice at the Moche Huacas”
James Kus
The Moche culture dominated northern coastal Peru from about the time of Christ to about 800 A.D. For more than a century, our knowledge of the Moche came mainly from the study of their ceramics, which are among the best in the ancient world – both as sculptural models and as surfaces on which elaborate scenes were painted. Among the subjects shown on the Moche ceramics are detailed sexual scenes as well as evidence of human sacrifice. Since the late 1980s, however, impressive new archaeological excavations at a number of major Moche sites have added much to our knowledge of the Moche culture. This talk will summarize much of the recent material that gives us new insights into this fascinating culture.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
1 Wade Oval Drive
Cleveland, Ohio
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19718
March 16, 8:00 PM
Insitute of Maya Studies Feature Presentation
"The Lives of Three Ancient Shamans: Art and Visionary Plants in the Andes 1500-2000 Years Ago”
with with Constantino Manuel Torres, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University
Rather than concentrating on one particular culture, this presentation will focus on three individuals (1 female, 2 males), from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, ca. 500-700 CE. These three well-preserved burials provide us with a glimpse into the lives of individuals interred with certain artifacts that link them to shamanic practices. Two of them were buried with Tiwanaku artifacts, and two carried complex snuffing kits. However, they are connected by a distinctive set of baskets and clothing.
Miami Dade College – Kendall Campus,
K-413 (in Building K-4, Room 13)
Miami, FloridaSubscribe to the full-color e-mailed version of our monthly IMS Explorer newsletter at:
www.instituteofmayastudies.org
Insitute of Maya Studies Feature Presentation
"The Lives of Three Ancient Shamans: Art and Visionary Plants in the Andes 1500-2000 Years Ago”
with with Constantino Manuel Torres, Professor Emeritus, Florida International University
Rather than concentrating on one particular culture, this presentation will focus on three individuals (1 female, 2 males), from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, ca. 500-700 CE. These three well-preserved burials provide us with a glimpse into the lives of individuals interred with certain artifacts that link them to shamanic practices. Two of them were buried with Tiwanaku artifacts, and two carried complex snuffing kits. However, they are connected by a distinctive set of baskets and clothing.
Miami Dade College – Kendall Campus,
K-413 (in Building K-4, Room 13)
Miami, FloridaSubscribe to the full-color e-mailed version of our monthly IMS Explorer newsletter at:
www.instituteofmayastudies.org
March 20, 3:00 PM
AIA Lecture
"Alicia Boswell, Collambay, the Chimú and Inca Empires: Political Power And Identity in the Chaupiyunga Landscape of the Moche Valley, Peru
Collambay, located in the chaupiyunga zone of the Moche Valley in northern Peru, sits on the eastern frontier of the coastal Chimú empire and was home to an Inca King’s coca fields. Archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic data from Collambay indicates its residents interacted with the coastal Chimú Empire, local Highland groups, and Inca Empire throughout the Late Andean Period (AD 1000-1470). Local residents relationships with imperial powers enabled local populations to gain regional political power and assert their local identity in the built and natural landscape of the chaupiyunga. This case study provides an opportunity to examine chaupiyunga residents’ role and negotiated relationships with imperial powers as well as the opportunity to document the culture history of a minority group in the Andes
Wagner College
Staten Island
New York
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19939
March 20, 2:30 PM
Alianza de las Artes Americanas Lecture
"Continuity and Creativity: Andean Tapestries in the Catholic Church”
In sixteenth and seventeenth century Peru, Andean weavers created tapestries to adorn newly-built Christian churches. Their works came out of the Inca tradition but responded to a variety of imported textile types. This talk will discuss surviving examples and documentary traces of these tapestries, which were expert syntheses of foreign and local elements that responded to the missionary goals of the period.
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Florida
Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, Sharp Auditorium.
Denver, Colorado
http://denverartmuseum.org/calendar/continuity-and-creativity-andean-tapestries-catholic-church
AIA Lecture
"Alicia Boswell, Collambay, the Chimú and Inca Empires: Political Power And Identity in the Chaupiyunga Landscape of the Moche Valley, Peru
Collambay, located in the chaupiyunga zone of the Moche Valley in northern Peru, sits on the eastern frontier of the coastal Chimú empire and was home to an Inca King’s coca fields. Archaeological, ethnohistorical and linguistic data from Collambay indicates its residents interacted with the coastal Chimú Empire, local Highland groups, and Inca Empire throughout the Late Andean Period (AD 1000-1470). Local residents relationships with imperial powers enabled local populations to gain regional political power and assert their local identity in the built and natural landscape of the chaupiyunga. This case study provides an opportunity to examine chaupiyunga residents’ role and negotiated relationships with imperial powers as well as the opportunity to document the culture history of a minority group in the Andes
Wagner College
Staten Island
New York
https://www.archaeological.org/events/19939
March 20, 2:30 PM
Alianza de las Artes Americanas Lecture
"Continuity and Creativity: Andean Tapestries in the Catholic Church”
In sixteenth and seventeenth century Peru, Andean weavers created tapestries to adorn newly-built Christian churches. Their works came out of the Inca tradition but responded to a variety of imported textile types. This talk will discuss surviving examples and documentary traces of these tapestries, which were expert syntheses of foreign and local elements that responded to the missionary goals of the period.
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Florida
Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, Sharp Auditorium.
Denver, Colorado
http://denverartmuseum.org/calendar/continuity-and-creativity-andean-tapestries-catholic-church
May 21, 2016-Ongoing
Los Angeles Museum of Art Exhibit
"Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramics"
Drawing on collaborative research by LACMA’s Conservation Center and the Art of the Ancient Americas Program, Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramicsintegrates new insight gained from technical analysis of ancient Maya ceramic vessels with knowledge from Maya culture. This exhibition considers ancient Maya ceramic production as both art and science and highlights how artisans worked to emulate acts of primordial creation through their labor of shaping, painting, and firing clay.
The new imaging produced by LACMA’s research reveals vessel composition, pigment chemistry, and modern modifications. Select images are juxtaposed with the objects in the gallery, inviting visitors to view inside these vessels as a way to come closer to the hands—and worlds—of these remarkable artists.
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/revealing-creation
Los Angeles Museum of Art Exhibit
"Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramics"
Drawing on collaborative research by LACMA’s Conservation Center and the Art of the Ancient Americas Program, Revealing Creation: The Science and Art of Ancient Maya Ceramicsintegrates new insight gained from technical analysis of ancient Maya ceramic vessels with knowledge from Maya culture. This exhibition considers ancient Maya ceramic production as both art and science and highlights how artisans worked to emulate acts of primordial creation through their labor of shaping, painting, and firing clay.
The new imaging produced by LACMA’s research reveals vessel composition, pigment chemistry, and modern modifications. Select images are juxtaposed with the objects in the gallery, inviting visitors to view inside these vessels as a way to come closer to the hands—and worlds—of these remarkable artists.
http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/revealing-creation
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