Peruvian Archaeologist, Quantitative, Archaeometry, Traveler. Mochica parents. Researching In the Titicaca Basin.
PhD in Anthropology, UC Davis. Postdoc at ASU
🚨New paper in JAS Reports:
"Volcanic Stone Sculptures of Were-Animals at Tiwanaku: pXRF and Statistical Analyses Suggest Regional Geochemical Provenance of Chachapuma Statues."
Free access until July 20:
https://t.co/7UsWkDwAXJ
#Tiwanaku#Archaeology#Andes#pXRF#sculptures
Exited to announce I got the Franklin Research Grant from @AmPhilSociety to support my research on early agriculture (qochas) and early complex societies in the northern Titicaca Basin, Peru!
Regreso al Titicaca, aunque esta vez por un proyecto todavia exploratorio.
@BancoMundialLAC@JaimeSaavedra22 Y pensar que dejamos que lo saquen, y luego con la perdida de poder de la @SuneduPeru, la educacion Universitaria del Peru se debilitó mucho
@SuiGnris@homuslimensis Claro, es un privilegio de pocos. Revisa Cuantos peruanos tienen vacaciones y Bonos. La mayor parte de la clase trabajadora no tiene eso. Solo unos pocos lo tiene
#NuevoDescubrimientoMHN
🧐🤠¡Nuevos aportes! Arqueólogos plantean nuevo origen de la agricultura en el altiplano, basandose en la dieta de los antiguos pobladores de la cuenca del Titicaca (Perú).
@luisfb78 Dating before evidence for sedentism, agriculture and social inequality, this suggests monument construction was initially motivated by the desire to memorialise ancestors, not a means to display elite power 2/2
🆓 https://t.co/4xptan6Q7v
Thanks to @UCDLandS (especially Greg Watry) for the press release for my paper in @AntiquityJ, which Greg aptly titles "structures of the dead" to refer to the Kaillachuro site, a burial mound site at the Andean Altiplano. https://t.co/OltAl5xruV
🚨New paper out! (again)
In this paper in @PLOS, we show from various data (isotopes, zooarchaeol., botany, quantitative) that the transition to the first farmers in the Titicaca Basin did not go through a hardship time as has been shown elsewhere.
https://t.co/dN9h6JDtCX
New paper out!
I am very excited to share my new paper published today in @Antiquity. One of the earliest monumental sites in the Andean Altiplano-- 5.3-3.0 ka. @UCDLandS@ASU@NatGeoExplorers@AmPhilSociety https://t.co/RBqZiZirgo