Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium celebrates the career of Tom D. Dillehay and his impactful contributions to interdisciplinary anthropology and South American archaeology. From meticulously researched archaeological studies that transformed our understanding of early humans in the Americas to interdisciplinary historical investigations of colonialism and commitment to ethical ethnographic research among modern Indigenous communities, Tom’s career is a trailblazing example of an anthropological archaeologist. His broad research addresses issues of settlement, migration, interaction, identity, environmental transformation, agriculture, and development of complex societies in the Indigenous Americas, including in South America, the USA, and Mexico. Moreover, Tom has held professional appointments in 19 institutions across Latin America, where he has not only taught generations of archaeology students but also founded three departments of anthropology. In this two-part session, Tom’s former students and mentees (Part 1) and colleagues and collaborators (Part 2) discuss the influence of his extraordinary career on their scholarship or the discipline at large, as well as showcase regionally and thematically diverse papers that honor his career. All presentations connect to Tom’s tireless and ongoing pursuit of understanding how pre-complex and complex societies emerged, what propels social change, and how archaeology contributes key anthropological insights vis-à-vis interdisciplinary, collaborative, and theoretically grounded research.

Other Keywords
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Andes: Formative • Architecture • Migration • Paleoethnobotany • Landscape Archaeology • Settlement patterns • Archaic • digital archaeology • historical ecology

Geographic Keywords
South America (Continent) • 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: Andes • Argentine Republic (Country)

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  • The Ahistorical Shell Middens at the Northern Tip of South America (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Subject to different historical forms of colonialism, the northern tip of South America is a politically marginalized area that is arguably the least understood from an archaeological perspective. While there is a basic understanding of ceramically defined periods, little is known about human interactions...

  • Architecture and Urban Planning of Inka Cusco (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ramiro Matos. Jose Alejandro Beltran-Caballero. Ricardo Mar.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The architectural and urban reconstruction of Cusco as ancient Inka capital has been a central scientific objective in Peruvian archaeology for more than a century. From the pioneering work of Squier and Uhle, continued by Uriel Garcia, Varcárcel, Chávez Ballón, and Rowe, among many others, and continuing...

  • The Long-Term Trajectory of Tom Dalton Dillehay in Chile (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Calogero Santoro. Paula Ugalde. Daniela Osorio. Katherine Herrrera.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tom Dillehay appeared publicly in Chile in October 1976 during the VII Congreso Nacional de Arqueología Chilena. Since then more than 16,769 days have passed, a figure that exceeds the archaeological depth, in thousands of calibrated years, that Tom has imprinted on the human history of the Andes, in...

  • Paleoindians from Mexico: What Do They Tell Us about the Early Peopling of the Americas? (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Silvia Gonzalez. Samuel Rennie.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mexico is important in the debate on the early peopling of the Americas because several well-preserved Paleoindian/Preceramic individuals with ages between 13,000 and 8,000 years have been found in lake sediments/volcanic deposits surrounding a Late Pleistocene Lake in Central Mexico and in submerged...

  • The Peopling of Southern Cone: A View from the Other Side of the Andes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Gustavo Politis.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery of Monte Verde 2 west of the Andes confirmed a pre-Clovis peopling of South America. Since then, other archeological evidence in the eastern plains of the Southern Cone showed diverse adaptive patterns and varied technologies, different from Monte Verde, between 14,000 and 12,000 cal BP. In...

  • Recovering Social and Political Structures on the Precolumbian North Coast of Peru (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Netherly.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been several decades since archaeologists first recognized that information about prehistoric social and political structures of precolumbian societies could be recovered by careful and appropriate archeological survey and excavation. Careful observation and recording made latter recognition of...

  • Some Remarks on Early Social Complexity in the Central Andes (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Hernández Garavito. Peter Kaulicke.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The well-known protohistoric Inca Empire of the late fifteenth century had achieved a remarkable degree of social complexity preceded by a similar expansive state some 500 years earlier. The lack of pre-European writing systems, however, obscures access to these earlier social formations. Thus, the social...

  • Tom Dillehay's Contributions to Agricultural Origins and Development (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dolores Piperno.

    This is an abstract from the "Dedication, Collaboration, and Vision, Part II: Papers in Honor of Tom D. Dillehay" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tom Dillehay’s best-known research is probably his pioneering work at Monte Verde, Chile, which was primary in upending the “Clovis First” paradigm for the initial peopling of the Americas. Perhaps less well known is his research in Peru that provided crucial information on the age, location, settlement...