Welcome to the website of the 36th Northeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory. This annual conference is a 2-day series of lectures and posters about recent and ongoing archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical research in the Andean and Amazonian regions of South America. Past participants include scholars from the United States, Latin America, Europe, and other parts of the world.

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Schedule

Friday, October 13th: Friday night Reception cash bar

7:30-9:30

New Deck Tavern (3408 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, 215.386.4600) Located 2.5 blocks from the Penn Museum

Saturday, October 14: Presentations

8:30-9:00	Coffee and pastries
9:00-9:20	Amalgamation and Indigeneity: The Mining Mita of Colonial Huancavelica DOUG SMIT (University of Illinois-Chicago)
9:20-9:40	A New Style for a New World: The headcloth/mesa awayos of the Aymara nations in the Viceroyalty of Peru SHELLEY BURIAN (Emery University)
9:40-10:00	Sisterhood of the Traveling Huacas: Female Participation in Taki Onqoy (16th century, Ayacucho, Peru) SCOTTI NORMAN (Vanderbilt University)
10:00-10:20	Peripheral Data in the Archaeology of Huánuco Pampa MONICA BARNES (American Museum of Natural History and Andean Past
10:20-10:30	Discussion
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-11:05	Tiwanaku’s Legacy: Middle Horizon to LIP transition in the Moquegua Valley NICOLA SHARATT (Georgia State University)
11:05-11:25	Highland-Coastal Relations and Dualistic Political Ideologies In Middle Horizon Jequetepeque EDWARD SWENSON (University of Toronto) & STEPHEN BERQUIST (University of Toronto)
11:25-11:45	Complex Guancavilca Landscapes: Investigations with Open Tools BENJAMIN CARTER (Muhlenberg College), WESTON CONNER (Muhlenberg College), MARIA MASUCCI (Drew University), SARA JUENGST (University North Carolina-Charlotte)
11:45-12:05	Citizen Science Crowdsourcing in Archaeology CHASE CHILDS (GlobalXplorer), SARAH H. PARCAK (University of Alabama at Birmingham), & MATTHEW PISCITELLI (The Field Museum & National Geographic Society)
12:05-12:15	Discussion
12:15-2:00	Lunch & Posters (Room 345 Museum; Academic Wing) (1:15) Tour of the Center for Analysis of Archaeological Materials (CAAM)
AFTERNOON PRESENTATIONS (Rainey Auditorium)
2:00-2:20	Complementary landscapes in the Tapajó domain: Santarém and Belterra Region, Lower Amazon, Brazil CAMILA GUARIM FIGUEIREDO (University of Toronto)
2:20-2:40	Cinnabar-Mercury Occurrence at Azogues (Loma Guashon), Ecuador; ICP Analyses WILLIAM BROOKS (Istanbul University)
2:40-3:00	Inca adaptation at the Amazonian and Montaña Frontiers DARRYL WILKINSON (University of Cambridge)
3:00-3:10	Discussion
3:10-3:25	Coffee Break
3:25-3:45	The Sunken Plaza at the Initial Period Site of Taukachi-Konkán, Casma Valley, Peru THOMAS POZORSKI (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), SHELIA POZORSKI (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley) & ROSA MARIN JAVE (Marchan S.A.C.)
3:45-4:05	Chawin and Chavín: Interaction with the Peruvian central highlands during the late Initial Period NICOLAS BROWN (Yale University)
4:05-4:25	What does it mean to be “Chavín”? The “Chavín Horizon” at Atalla, Huancavelica, Peru MICHELLE YOUNG (Yale University)
4:25-4:45	Urban Life in the Capital City of Huari: The 2017 Excavations WILLIAM ISBELL (Binghamton University)
4:45-5:05	Monumentality and the Development of the Primary State ALEXEI VRANICH (U. California-Berkeley)
5:05-5:15	Discussion and Business Meeting
5:30-6:30	Posters & Nibbles (Room 345 Museum, Academic Wing)
7:00-10:00	Dinner at Kate Moore’s home in Havertown, PA. Details available at Business Meeting.

Sunday, October 15: Presentations

MORNING PRESENTATIONS (Rainey Auditorium)
8:30-9:00	Coffee and pastries
9:00-9:20	Mobility, resource procurement, and social interaction at the border of Chile, Bolivia and Argentina Jose Capriles (Pennsylvania State University), Nicholas Tripcevich (University of California Berkeley), Axel Nielsen (CONICET), & Michael Glascock (University of Missouri)
9:20-9:40	Bridging the gap between fieldwork and conservation in Huanchaco, Peru ALICIA BOSWELL (Bard Graduate Center & Metropolitan Museum of Art), JESSICA WALTHEW (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum & Bard Graduate Center), & GABRIEL PRIETO (Universidad Nacional de Trujillo)
9:40-10:00	House for the Living, Home for the Dead: Mortuary Activity in the Muru Ut Pata Area, Tiwanaku KATHARINE DAVIS (Ursinus College)
10:00-10:10	Discussion
10:10-10:30	Coffee Break
10:30-10:50	Deer hunting at Canchas Uckro, a late Initial Period Site in the Callejón de Conchucos SADIE WEBER (Harvard University) & JASON NESBITT (Tulane University)
10:50-11:10	Ancient Guinea Pig (Cavia porcellus) Mitogenomes as a Proxy for Andean Interaction SUSAN DEFRANCE (University of Florida), Edana Lord (University of Otago), MICHELLE LEFEBVRE (Florida State Museum) & LISA MATISOO-SMITH (University of Otago)
11:10-11:30	Anthropocene in the Atacama Desert CALOGERO M. SANTORO (Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica, Chile), PABLO A MARQUET (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago), & EUGENIA GAYO (Universidad de Concepción, Concepción), VIRGINIA MCROSTIEC (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago) NOTE: has to present on Sunday
11:30-11:45	Discussion

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