Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Abstracts
(In Alphabetical Order by First Author)

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Hélène Bernier (Université de Montréal)
Craft Specialists at the Moche Site: Organization, Affiliations, and Identities

Steve Bourget (University of Texas at Austin)

The Politics of Sacrifice and the Evolution of Rulership in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture

Robert Bradley (Columbia University)
Kuelap: Missing from Action

William E. Brooks (USGS), Jonathan D. Kent (Metropolitan State College), Victor Vasquez (Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú) and Teresa Rosales (Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú)
The Muralla Pircada—A Pre-Columbian Debris Flow Retention Dam near the Santa Rita B Archaeological Site, Chao Valley, Northern Perú

Claude Chapdelaine (Université de Montréal)
Gallinazo and Moche at El Castillo of Santa: An Interlocking History

David Chicoine (University of East Anglia)
The 2004 Excavations at the Early Horizon Site of Huambacho, Nepeña Valley, Peru

Lawrence S. Coben (University of Pennsylvania) and Paul J. Boulifard (Drury University)
Inkallakta-A Case Study in Digital Reconstruction and Virtual Reality

Julie Farnum (Montclair State University) and Robert Benfer Jr. (University of Missouri-Columbia)
Diet, Health, and Human Adjustment to Sedentism on the North Coast of Peru: New evidence from Huaca Prieta

Georgia de Havenon (Brooklyn Museum)
History of an Icon: Interpretive representations of the Gateway of the Sun

Sabine Hyland (St. Norbert College), Donato Amado Gonzalez (Instituto Nacional de Cultura, Cuzco), and Brian S. Bauer (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Categories in Andean Khipu: The Testimony of Four Colonial Khipukamayu

George F. Lau (University of East Anglia)
Northern Exposures: Evidence for Recuay-Cajamarca Interaction

Greg J. Maggard (University of Kentucky)
Early Preceramic Colonization and Regionalization on the North Coast of Peru

Krzysztof Makowski (Pontificia Universidad Católica, Lima)

The Highland Presence on the Central Coast of Peru during Late Pre-Hispanic Times: A Case Study from the Lomas of the Lurin Valley

Alexis Mantha (University of Michigan)
Late Prehispanic Households and Settlement Patterns of the Rapayan Valley, Upper Marañón Drainage, Central Andes of Peru


Joseph B. Mountjoy (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Middle Formative Contacts Between West Mexico, Central America and Andean America

Víctor Pimentel (Université de Montréal)
Storage Facilities at Huacas de Moche Urban Center, North Coast of Peru

Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski (Texas Pan-Am University)
Changing Views on the Site of Las Haldas, Casma Valley, Peru

Kurt Rademaker (University of Maine), Dan Sandweiss (University of Maine) , Michael Malpass (Ithaca College), Adan Umire (CIARQ), Pablo de la Vera (Instituto Nacional de Cultura), Louis Fortin (University of Maine), and Ben Morris(University of Maine)
Preceramic Utilization of the Alca Obsidian Source: Recent Results

Arthur Rostoker (Queens College-CUNY)
Reading the Evidence for Prehistoric Development of Central Places in the Upano Valley, Southeastern Ecuador

Jeffrey Splitstoser (Catholic University of America)
Layers of Complexity: Textile Structures from the Paracas site of Cerrillos, Ica Valley, Peru.

Paul R. Steele (University of Essex)
European Space Versus Andean Time: The Colonial Origins of the Term Tahuantinsuyu

Gary Urton (Harvard University)
The Puruchuco Khipu Archive

John W. Verano (Tulane University)

A Mass Human Sacrifice at Punta Lobos, Huarmey River Valley, Northern Peru

Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania)
Anti-cosmopolitan Dynamics at Tiwanaku