South America
Vol. 54 / No. 2
By: Peter D. Harrison
Midden Finds
The most surprising finds in the kitchen garbage dump were fragmented, burned, and gnawed human bones, recovered among burned animal […]
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By: Chris Knutson
The “Tired Stones” of Lake Titicaca: Field Experience
On the morning of August 7, 2002, my colleagues and I crossed the border from Bolivia into Peru. Just past […]
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Vol. 49 / No. 1
By: Russell D. Greaves
The Ethnoarchaeology of Hunting and Collecting: Pumé Foragers of Venezuela
It is a common anthropological fallacy to think that people who forage for their subsistence are living remnants of simpler […]
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Vol. 48 / No. 3
By: Daniel W. Gade
Albert A. Giesecke (1883-1968): A Philadelphian in the Land of the Incas
A University of Pennsylvania graduate born in Philadelphia played a largely unrecognized but important part in recovering and promoting Peru’s […]
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By: Alexei Vranich, Paul Harmon and Chris Knutson
Reed Boats and Experimental Archaeology on Lake Titicaca
As much as archaeologists grumble about the scientific merit of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki journey from Peru to Polynesia, one […]
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By: Melissa Vogel
Life on the Frontier in Ancient Peru: Archaeological Investigations at Cerro la Cruz
Recent research on the north coast of Rtlhaoeru is provoking new interest in a lite-known prehispanic culture, the asma. In […]
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By: Brenda J. Bowser
The Amazonian House: A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige
Dusk was falling in the Amazonian house. Two men sat silently. The host was dressed for war, his face painted […]
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By: Brenda J. Bowser
The Amazonian House: A Place of Women's Politics, Pottery, and Prestige
Dusk was falling in the Amazonian house. Two men sat silently. The host was dressed for war, his face painted […]
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By: Michael Harris, Valentina L. Martinez, WM. Jerald Kennedy, Charles Roberts and James Gammack-Clark
The Complex Interplay of Culture and Nature in Coastal South-Central Ecuador: An Interdisciplinary Work
Interdisciplinary Beginnings One of the most enduring domains of inquiry within anthropology has been that of the human-environment relationship. Here […]
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By: Melissa Murphy
From Bare Bones to Mummified: Insights from an Inca Cemetery: Research Notes
Archaeologists moved quickly with the astonishing discovery of an Inca cemetery underneath the village of Tupac Amaru, located six miles outside of Lima, […]
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