The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Large-scale archaeology was slow to develop in South America. Gradually, during the twentieth century, the various republics incorporated archaeology into their nation- and institution-building, funding and carrying out research, while setting the parameters of legitimacy. At the same time, foreign entities such as universities and museums sent both teams and individual graduate students to work on that continent. This symposium will examine the institutionalization and internationalization of Andean archaeology. It follows upon our 2018 symposium and moves beyond it to take up topics not covered then. These will include, but are not limited to, foreign national participation; the establishment of archaeology programs in South American universities and museums; ancient American art and archaeology at Chicago's Art Institute, the development of governmental regulatory bodies; the introduction of scientific techniques; the development of high altitude archaeology; various long-term projects such as the Contisuyu Project, Ann Kendall’s Cusichaca Project, John Murra’s "A Study of Provincial Inca Life" (Huánuco) Project, and Jeffrey Parson’s Mantaro Valley survey; and the enduring contributions of individuals including Junius Bird and Michael Moseley.

Other Keywords
History Of Archaeology • Settlement patterns • Andes: Formative • Chronology • Survey • Ethnohistory/History • Andes: Late Horizon • Historical Archaeology • Civilization • Archives

Geographic Keywords
Republic of Peru (Country) • Republic of Panama (Country) • Republic of Colombia (Country) • Netherlands Antilles (Country) • Aruba (Country) • Republic of Ecuador (Country) • Republic of Chile (Country) • South America (Continent) • South America: Andes

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  • Art, Archaeology, and Archives: Pañamarca at Midcentury (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Trever.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the modern history of American archaeology, the relationship between art and science has often been an uneasy one. But in northern Peru in the 1950s, archaeologists, artists, and poets enjoyed a remarkably close camaraderie that has seldom been...

  • Cerros, Keros, Cuerpos, y Mas! 37 Years of Programa Contisuyo Research in Southern Peru (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Moseley. Susan deFrance. Patrick Ryan Williams. Donna Nash.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1980 the Pritzker family, major shareholders in Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC), contacted Michael Moseley then a Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History inquiring about establishing a research program in the Moquegua region of southern...

  • The Cusichaca Archive: History, Contents and Research Potential (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Kimbell. Sara Lunt. David Drew.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1977, Dr Ann Kendall established the Cusichaca Trust, registered in the UK, to oversee her archaeological project work. Today the Cusichaca Archive documents forty continuous years of one of the largest multi-disciplinary projects ever mounted in the...

  • The Diverse Legacies of the Viru Project (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Netherly.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1946 a group of North American archaeologists with Andean experience, undertook a program of research in the Viru Valley, designed to supplement Rafael Larco Hoyle’s seriated sequence of ceramic styles based on vessels from graves and purchased...

  • Don Lathrap, Precocious Civilization, and the Highland-Lowland Link in Andean Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Erickson. Samantha Seyler.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The dynamic interaction between culture areas has been and continues to be important. Traditionally, the boundaries or frontiers between culture areas were considered fixed. Many scholars now recognize that these spaces were fluid and their inhabitants...

  • From Kotosh to Pacopampa: Sixty-Years of Japanese Investigations on the Andean Formative (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Yuichi Matsumoto. Eisei Tsurumi.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the excavations at Kotosh during the 1960’s, the University of Tokyo school of Andean Archaeology has consistently carried out large-scale archaeological researches focusing mainly on the Formative Period of the central Andes. All the archaeologists...

  • Italian Contributions to Andean Archaeology (1962-2018): An Unknown History (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolina Orsini.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Unlike other European countries, Italian archaeological research in the Americas started only after the Second World War. Nevertheless, links between Italy and Latin America are much older: in the mid-nineteenth century individual scholars of the caliber...

  • John Murra’s "A Study of Provincial Inca Life" Project; The Archaeological Survey (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Barnes.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines an aspect of John Victor Murra’s "A Study of Provincial Inca Life Project" (1963–1966), centered around the large Inca site of Huánuco Pampa. Archaeological survey was an important part of this multi-disciplinary endeavor. Probably...

  • The Junin Surveys, 1975-1981 (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Parsons. Charles Hastings. Ramiro Matos.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Inspired by previous systematic regional surveys in the Valley of Mexico, the Junin surveys were undertaken as a collaborative effort by the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and the University of Michigan during several long field seasons between...

  • Junius Bouton Bird, Archaeologist and Explorer (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mario Rivera.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Junius Bird’s legacy to Andean Archaeology is reflected in several fields. Bird’s fieldwork, commonly known as "dirty archaeology" was decisive in establishing the first stratigraphic sequences in the three areas where he did work: Patagonia, Northern...

  • Seeing Underground: The Feasibility of Archaeological Remote Sensing in Coastal and Highland Peru (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Grossman.

    This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reports programmatic recommendations, an advanced seminar series in archaeology, and field tests in geophysics undertaken during a consultancy with the Peruvian Institute of Culture (INC) in October 1982. The invited international program...