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Programa de entrenamiento en Arqueobiologia (2nd, Lima - 18 de Agosto, 2008)
- Dirigida por el Dr. David J. Goldstein, este programa que es financiado por el NSF, la UPCH y el LPP-UPCH, tiene 2 cursos: uno teorico-practico (Arqueobiologia) y otro netamente practico (Metodos en Arqueobiologia). Los estudiantes del Consorcio de Universidades (PUCP-UPCH) pueden acceder al mismo, obteniendo los creditos de los curso; otros estudiantes de otras instituciones lo pueden llevar como alumnos libres, siendo la unica limitante del espacio que tenemos en las aulas y laboratorios.
For more information contact: http://www.consorcio.edu.pe/index.php .
Visit: http://www.upch.edu.pe/facien/herbario/lpp_cursos/arqueobiologia.pdf
- Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (UCLA) Summer Digs blog
- colleges will send back dispatches about their adventures throughout the month of July from Chile's Atacama Desert, the jungle near an Indian village in Panama, and ancient graves in Albania.
For more information contact: .
Visit: http://www.magazine.ucla.edu/summerdigs?cat=46
- Dumbarton Oaks Deadlines for Fellowship and Grant Applications
- Applications for all awards must be submitted by November 1, 2008.
Please note that this year we are introducing an online application system. Awards will be announced in February 2009 and must be accepted by March 15 of that year. Award decisions are made by external committees of scholars in the three fields.
Visit: http://www.doaks.org/research/
- Simposio Internacional de Arqueología (6th, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru - September 5-7, 2008)
- Como parte de las celebraciones de los 25 años de la Especialidad de Arqueología PUCP y en reconocimiento de los 50 años de investigaciones de la Misión Japonesa en el Perú. De esta manera, se presentan resultados de proyectos recientes e inéditos, tanto de los investigadores japoneses como de colegas nacionales y extranjeros dentro de un afán de precisar cronologías de sitios y regiones, de contextualizar los hallazgos, de compararlos y diferenciarlos en vez de repetir paradigmas de antaño. For more information contact: Rafael Valdez, rvaldez@pucp.edu.pe
- Bolivian exhibition of mid-20th century photography: "Johannes Lein and Helen Cottrell: Two Views of Indigenous Bolivia" (June 19 to September 1, 2008 - Brazos Valley Museum, Bryan, Texas).
- The show of over 100 images highlights the work of German school teacher Johannes Lein, who worked in Bolivia between 1939 and 1964 and of Helen Cottrell, an American lawyer who made a year-long tour of South America in 1948-49. Subjects include traditional life in the altiplano, fiestas, markets, landscapes, and architecture, including archaeological sites. The exhibition is under the overall curation of Monica Barnes with the assistance of Matthias Strecker, Helen B. Shepherd, David Fleming, Grel Aranibar-Strecker, and Freddy Taboada and the gracious cooperation of Gertraud Lein.Sponsors include The Holt Foundation, The Brazos Valley Museum, Monica Barnes and David Fleming, Goldman Sachs, and Helen B. Shepherd and Jean Simson. Address of the museum: 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, TX 77802 Phone: (979) 776-2195
Visit: www.brazosvalleymuseum.org
- CALL FOR PAPERS
- Listing of specific session or symposia will be added to the event's website entry under 'Conferences and Events'.
General News
- Andean Archaeology News and Links:
- list recent news announcements and assist Andeanists in locating web sites by indexing various ancient cultures.
Visit: http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MikeRuggerisAndean/
- ANDEAN EMAIL INFORMATION LIST:
- Notices on conferences, publications, deaths, field schools, requests for information, etc. Traffic varies from 5 to 30 messages a month, but is not a discussion list. To join the list or to request that an announcement be distributed, write to Dan Sandweiss at:
For more information contact: dan_sandweiss@umit.maine.edu
List is not shared, and one can be removed upon request to Dan.
- Anthropology in the News hosted by Texas A & M
- Visit: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
- Yahoo News: Anthropology and Archaeology
- Visit: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Science/Anthropology_and_Archaeology
Conferences and Events
- American Anthropological Association: Meeting Calendar
- Visit: http://www.aaanet.org/press/index.htm
- Archaeology of Ritual (UCLA - Jan.8-9, 2004)
- conference is available electronically.
Visit: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/seminar/ritual3.html
- Bolivian exhibition of mid-20th century photography: "Johannes Lein and Helen Cottrell: Two Views of Indigenous Bolivia" (June 19 to September 1, 2008 - Brazos Valley Museum, Bryan, Texas).
- The show of over 100 images highlights the work of German school teacher Johannes Lein, who worked in Bolivia between 1939 and 1964 and of Helen Cottrell, an American lawyer who made a year-long tour of South America in 1948-49. Subjects include traditional life in the altiplano, fiestas, markets, landscapes, and architecture, including archaeological sites. The exhibition is under the overall curation of Monica Barnes with the assistance of Matthias Strecker, Helen B. Shepherd, David Fleming, Grel Aranibar-Strecker, and Freddy Taboada and the gracious cooperation of Gertraud Lein.Sponsors include The Holt Foundation, The Brazos Valley Museum, Monica Barnes and David Fleming, Goldman Sachs, and Helen B. Shepherd and Jean Simson. Address of the museum: 3232 Briarcrest Drive, Bryan, TX 77802 Phone: (979) 776-2195
Visit: www.brazosvalleymuseum.org
- Congreso Ecuatoriano de Antropología y Arqueología (3rd, Guayaquil, Ecuador - October 6-10, 2008)
- Ecuador, territorio de contacto y convergencias: resignificaciones del pasado y el presente. Visit: http://www.naya.org.ar/eventos/3ceaa.htm
- Congreso Nacional de Zooarqueología Argentina (1st, Malargüe, Argentina - 8-12 de septiembre, 2008)
- para los investigadores interesados en el estudio de faunas de sitios arqueológicos, en el cual se pretende reunir trabajos de una de las áreas de mayor crecimiento en la Arqueología Argentina durante las últimas décadas.
Para comunicarse con la Comisión Organizadora escribir a: gustavoneme@arqueologiamendoza.com o adolfogil@arqueologiamendoza.com y para mayor información visite: www.arqueologiamendoza.com.
- Congresos y Jornadas from NAyA
- Visit: http://www.naya.org.ar/eventos/
- Institute of Andean Studies (49th, UC-Berkeley - January 9-10, 2009).
- Visit: http://www.instituteofandeanstudies.net/
- For more information contact: (510) 525-7816 9am-5:30pm (PST) OR IAS secretary, mwf@uclink.berkeley.edu .
- Also visit: Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology - Collections Access Policy
- For more information contact: (510) 525-7816 9am-5:30pm (PST) OR IAS secretary, mwf@uclink.berkeley.edu .
- International Congress of Americanists (ICA) (53rd, Centro Histórico in Mexico City - July 19-24, 2009)
- Visit: http://www.53ica.com/
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
- Amazonian and Andean visual and sensorial worlds: comparison and new interpretative trends
- focuses on approaches to the Andes and Amazonia from the visual and sensorial worlds that Amerindians frequent and create: creation and destruction of objects as spatial-temporal processes; the conceptual overlapping of materiality, embodiment and agency; the use of objects and images as producers of memory; the intersemiotic relations between visual, musical and verbal systems, especially in the field of ritual performance; synaesthetic experiences and the ways of seeing, hearing and sensing the universe; ethnographic and archaeological theories about figuration, abstraction and image and their socio-cosmological unfolding; the interpretation of systems of objects as populations and their implication for Amerindian socialities; the uses and meanings of foreign objects; the possible relations between surfaces and graphic patterns: patterns can constitute surfaces or they can build up, adhere or transform pre-existing surfaces. For more information contact: Els Lagrou (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) OR Aristoteles Barcelos Neto (University of East Anglia, UK)
- Meanings of plant domestication in the Americas: Evidences, processes, and implications.
- interested in addressing more specifically the domestication processes and the socio-economic implications. We are therefore calling for case studies or review papers that address plant domestication processes and discuss its "meaning" through multiple approaches such as: processing and consumption residues (macro and microremains, dental calculus, coproliths, stomach and intestinal content); diet (stable isotopes, bone and tooth pathologies); agricultural fields and irrigation systems; iconography; storage structures; tools for agriculture, harvest and plant processing. We do not want to put emphasis on methodologies, but on their results to be able to address the question of human management of species and plant communities: did it lead to plant domestication or tending? Were these processes local, or did the plants come from other areas? Did these plants change the socio-economic structures of the groups, and to what extent? How did these plants integrate into the everyday life of American groups? Finally For more information contact: chevalier -at- atelier.cx (Alexandre Chevalier) OR shypb - at - arnet.com.ar (Pilar Babot) (Antispam measure: replace [ - at - ] by @)
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
- Metropolitan Museum of Art's Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru New York, NY - February 26, 2008–September 1, 2008)
- n the Andean regions of ancient South America, the brilliantly colored feathers of Amazonian birds were a luxury that was much treasured and long used. From the third millennium B.C. onward, feathers served various ceremonial and secular purposes throughout pre-conquest Peruvian history. Radiant blues, yellows, reds, and greens embellished high-status apparel and accessories such as ear ornaments, pectorals, fans, headdresses, miniature ritual offerings, and large-scale hangings. Examples of them, drawn from public and private collections and the Museum’s own holdings, are on view. Visit: http://www.metmuseum.org/
- Miércoles Arqueológicos y Antropológicos (Salón General del Centro Cultural de San Marcos Hora: 6:00 p.m. - la segunda semana del mes de abril hasta noviembre (con un receso en el mes de julio y parte de agosto))
- El Museo de Arqueología y Antropología de San Marcos organiza cada año desde, y abierto al público en general. Visit: http://www.ccsm-unmsm.edu.pe/arqueologia/miercoles.htm
- Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory (27th, October 11-12, 2008, University of Maine, Orono, ME)
- Luis Jaime Castillo from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú has agreed to be our keynote speaker, talking on 18 years of research at San Jose de Moro and the northern Jequetepeque valley. Over the summer, we will set up a website, get you information on hotels etc, and issue a call for papers. At this point, we just want to give everyone a heads up so you can pencil it in on your schedules. Visit: http://www.umaine.edu/
For more information contact: Daniel H. Sandweiss OR Greg Zaro
- Simposio Internacional de Arqueología (6th, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru - September 5-7, 2008)
- Como parte de las celebraciones de los 25 años de la Especialidad de Arqueología PUCP y en reconocimiento de los 50 años de investigaciones de la Misión Japonesa en el Perú. De esta manera, se presentan resultados de proyectos recientes e inéditos, tanto de los investigadores japoneses como de colegas nacionales y extranjeros dentro de un afán de precisar cronologías de sitios y regiones, de contextualizar los hallazgos, de compararlos y diferenciarlos en vez de repetir paradigmas de antaño. For more information contact: Rafael Valdez, rvaldez@pucp.edu.pe
- Simposio Internacional de Estudios sobre América Colonial - CASO. (4th, Belo Horizonte, Brasil -12 y 14 de noviembre del 2008)
- Visit: http://www.ufmg.br/americacolonial/english/index.html
For more information contact: jbeatriz@predialnet.com.br OR Eduardo França Paiva, casobh@fafich.ufmg.br
- Society for American Archaeology (73rd, Vancouver - 3/26-30/08); (74th, Atlanta - 4/22-26/09); (75th, St. Louis, Missouri - 4/14-18/2010; (76th, Sacramento, CA - 3/30- 4/3/2011).
- Visit: http://www.saa.org/Meetings/index.html
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
- Households of the North Coast of Peru
- Contributors are especially encouraged to link household assemblages and domestic practice to wider social, economic, or political dynamics, or use household contexts to address continuities and discontinuities observed on the North Coast and through various time periods. George Gumerman and Brian Billman will be discussants for the symposium.
- For more information contact: Ilana Johnson OR Robyn Cutright
- Rethinking Class and Status in the Andes
- Papers within this session may deal with issues such as: inter-period or inter-region differences in the production and performance of class in the Andes; whether and how warrior or religious "classes" relate to "classes" that were defined by economic practices or the control of resources; how inter-regional or inter-site heterarchical relations were linked to intra-regional or intra-site hierarchical organization; how class may be defined through ideological or symbolic criteria, more so than economic (e.g. Gramscian notions of class); how class distinctions may not necessarily be defined by the differential control of economic resources; the difference and relation between "class" and "status" distinctions in the Andes; the spatiality of social difference; the general applicability of Marxian models of "class" to non-market societies; links between emerging urbanism and emerging class distinctions; so-called Andean "modes" of production ("Asiatic", "Verticality","Oriental Despotism") and their assumptions o For more information contact: Steven B. Kosiba
- Towards an International Inventory of Prehistoric Mines and Quarries
- Despite the widespread presence of prehistoric extraction sites in the historic environment, many are overlooked or their importance unrecognised, thus placing them at risk. Although amongst the earliest examples of technology, they rarely receive World Heritage Site status, and some have no legal protection at all. Currently, catalogues are restricted to certain countries or particular stone types, but this is not universal. This initial symposium will work towards achieving a directory for those working in the field: contributions will provide an overview by country, region, or stone type, to begin to build an international inventory. By Dave Field and Peter Topping. (no contact information provided) For more information contact: Peter Eeckhout
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
- South American Archaeology Seminar in London, UK.
- held in May and November each year at University College London, 34 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PY (near Euston Train Station); sponsored by The Institute for the Study of the Americas & The Institute of Archaeology, UCL.
- For more information contact: Bill Sillar
- For more information contact: Bill Sillar
- Southeast Conference on Amazonian and Andean Studies (Florida Atlantic University - September 19-20, 2008)
- The purpose of the conference is to bring together scholars in the region who work on Amazonian and Andean studies, with the intent to found an association and annual or semi-annual conference. We are open to presentations on topics from a varietyof disciplines, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, economics, cultural studies, environmental studies, gender studies, linguistics, history, languages, literature, visual and media studies and political science. Two renowned scholars of Amazonian and Andean Studies have agreed to deliver keynote addresses: Dr. Regina Harrison, University of Maryland, College Park and Dr. Norman Whitten, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Visit: http://www.fau.edu/index.php
For more information contact: Dr. Michael J. Horswell OR Dr. Rachel Corr
- Smithsonian: Lectures & Seminars
- listings as diverse as the institute, therefore requires some searching: use the Find feature. Visit: http://www.si.edu/events/lectures.asp
- World Archaeology Conference (6th, University College Dublin, Ireland - June 29 - July 4, 2008)
- planning a varied and engaging thematic programme complemented by a wide range of social events. You will also have the opportunity to see the rich cultural and social life of Dublin as well as to sample Ireland's outstanding archaeological heritage. Visit: http://www.ucd.ie/wac-6/index.html
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
- People and plant resources: diversity in practices, technologies and knowledge.
- Our aim is to provide a space to debate the relationship between >humans and plants, emphasizing the diversity of ways in which this >relationship is established. >A description of the session can be found at :; >
- Visit: http://www.ucd.ie/wac-6/programme/160.html
For more information contact: Alexandre Chevalier, alexandre.chevalier@atelier.cx OR Pilar Babot, shypb@arnet.com.ar
- Mountains and pilgrimages--the dynamic ritual landscape.
- The aim of this session is to understand the "sacred mountain" as a multicultural phenomenon.
For more information contact: Mark, Aldenderfer, aldender@u.arizona.edu OR Alan Peatfield, Alan.peatfield@ucd.ie
- Archaeology and Development/Arqueología y Desarrollo
- The aim of this session is to explore approaches and theories on development in archaeology, including the tangible surfaces of ancient material heritage, as well as the intangible indigenous knowledges and wisdoms that archaeology may reconstruct and help revive./Esta sesión busca explorar las perspectivas y teorías entorno al desarrollo en la arqueología tomando en cuenta las superficies tangibles del patrimonio cultural material a la vez que los saberes y conocimientos indígenas intangibles que la arqueología puede reconstruir y promover. For more information contact: Alexander Herrera OR Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels OR Dante Angelo
- Animating Archaeology: Of Subjects, Objects, and Alternative Ontologies
- The purpose of this session is to critically explore the archaeological potential of "thinking through things," animating essences as transgressive, the idea of an essential equivalency between people and things, and the material dimensions of "life-force." Additional themes might include the question of "agency" and whether it can be usefully applied to things or even humans; and the encounter between animistic worldviews and recent theoretical models of the world as inherently in "flux." For more information contact: Benjamin Alberti OR Tamara Bray
- CALL FOR PAPERS:
Blogs (Weblogs)
- Apertura Arqueologica
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Visit: http://ventanarqueologica.blogspot.com/
- Arkeomala: Proyecto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas en el Valle de Mala, Perú
- Created by: Omar Pinedo y Henry Tantaleán
Visit: http://arkeomala.blogspot.com/
- Arqueología Andina y otros: Un blog sobre arqueología andina pero también sobre otros temas con los que me cruzo. Por Alvaro Higueras
- Visit: http://arqueoandina.blogspot.com/
- Caral Civilization
- Visit: http://caralperu.typepad.com/caral_civilization_peru/
- El pasado a través de un Vitral
- Visit: http://arqueovitral.blogspot.com/
- Peru Archaeology Rules
- Created by: Daniel Sandweiss
Visit: http://caralperu.typepad.com/peru_archaeology_rules/
- Peru Terremoto y Arqueología
- Created by: Daniel Sandweiss
Visit: http://caralperu.typepad.com/peru_terremoto_y_arqueolo/
- Teoría Arqueologíca
- Created by: Miguel Fuentes M. y Marcelo Soto C.
Visit: http://tarqueologica.blogspot.com/
- Y así se llega a conocer el bosque…
- Created by:
Visit: http://teoriaapequenaescala.blogspot.com/
Newspapers
- Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times
- is back and online after a 10-year hiatus, and is being re-launched as a Web-based multimedia magazine, covering news and features on Peru. The new publication, with Eleanor Griffis as the publisher, builds on a nearly 100-year tradition of excellence in English-language journalism carried on by three generations of the Griffis family, which published the West Coast Leader and the old Andean Air Mail & Peruvian Times newspapers, and later the Lima Times magazine and the Andean Report newsletter.
http://www.peruviantimes.com/
- Arkeos
- The aim of the journal is to create a place to debate archaeological topics, analysis and mainly the publication of the works done by undergraduate and graduate students of Archaeology of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
http://www.pucp.edu.pe/publicaciones/arkeos/
- El Comercio, Perú
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Visit: http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/online/
- La República, Perú
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Visit: http://www.larepublica.com.pe/
- El Diario, Boliva
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Visit: http://www.eldiario.net/
- Los Tiempos, Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Visit: http://www.lostiempos.com/
- El Chileno, Chile
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Visit: http://www.elchileno.cl/
- ALL - Chile
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Visit: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/chile.htm
- ALL - Peru
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Visit: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/peru.htm
- ALL- Bolivia
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Visit: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/bolivia.htm
- ALL - Ecuador
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Visit: http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ecuador.htm
- Anthropology in the News (Texas A & M)
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Visit: http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
Radio / Television
- Radio Programas del Perú
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Visit: http://www.rpp.com.pe/
- ALL - Peru
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Visit: http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/pru/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp
- ALL - Chile
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Visit: http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/chl/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp
- ALL - Ecuador
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Visit: http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/ecu/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp
- ALL - Bolivia
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Visit: http://www.tvradioworld.com/region1/bol/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp
