Northeast Conference on Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory
Conference Schedule

Saturday, November 6, 2004

Morning Session-Peabody Museum Auditorium (Moderated by Lucy Salazar)

8:00-8:30 Coffee and refreshments

8:30-8:35 Welcome and opening remarks

8:40-9:00 Greg J. Maggard (University of Kentucky) Early Preceramic Colonization and Regionalization on the North Coast of Peru

9:05-9:25 Kurt Rademaker (University of Maine), Dan Sandweiss (University of Maine), Michael Malpass (Ithaca College), Adam 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

9:30-9:50 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

9:55-10:15 Shelia Pozorski and Thomas Pozorski (Texas Pan-Am University) Changing Views on the Site of Las Haldas, Casma Valley, Peru

10:20-10:35 Coffee Break

10:35-10:55 Joseph B. Mountjoy (University of North Carolina at Greensboro) Middle Formative Contacts Between West Mexico, Central America and Andean America

11:00-11:20 David Chicoine (University of East Anglia) The 2004 Excavations at the Early Horizon Site of Huambacho, Nepeña Valley, Peru

11:25-11:45 George F. Lau (University of East Anglia) Northern Exposures: Evidence for Recuay-Cajamarca Interaction

11:50-12:10 Arthur Rostoker (Queens College-CUNY) Reading the Evidence for Prehistoric Development of Central Places in the Upano Valley, Southeastern Ecuador

12:15-2:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session Luce Hall Auditorium (Moderated by Richard Burger)

2:00-2:20 Hélène Bernier (Université de Montréal) Craft Specialists at the Moche Site: Organization, Affiliations, and Identities

2:25-2:45 Víctor Pimentel (Université de Montréal) Storage Facilities at Huacas de Moche Urban Center, North Coast of Peru

2:50-3:10 Claude Chapdelaine (Université de Montréal) Gallinazo and Moche at El Castillo of Santa: An Interlocking History

3:15-3:35 Jeffrey Splitstoser (The Catholic University of America) Layers of Complexity: Textile Structures from the Paracas site of Cerrillos, Ica Valley, Peru

3:40-4:00 Coffee Break

4:00-4:20 Steve Bourget (University of Texas at Austin) The Politics of Sacrifice and the Evolution of Rulership in Moche Archaeology and Visual Culture

4:25-4:45 Alexei Vranich (University of Pennsylvania) Anti-cosmopolitan Dynamics at Tiwanaku

4:50-5:00 Business Meeting

5:00-5:30 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 Lurín Valley

6:00-8:00 Reception at Great Hall, Peabody Museum

Sunday November 7, 2005

Morning Session-Luce Hall Auditorium (Moderated by Richard Burger and Lucy Salazar)

8:00-8:35 Coffee and Refreshments

8:35-8:55 Georgia de Havenon (Brooklyn Museum) History of an Icon: Interpretive representations of the Gateway of the Sun

9:00-9:20 Alexis Mantha (University of Michigan) Late Prehispanic Households and Settlement Patterns of the Rapayan Valley, Upper Marañón Drainage, Central Andes of Peru

9:25-9:45 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

9:50-10:10 John W. Verano (Tulane University) A Mass Human Sacrifice at Punta Lobos, Huarmey River Valley, Northern Peru

10:15-10:35 Robert Bradley (Columbia University) Kuelap: Missing from Action

10:35-10:50 Coffee Break

10:50-11:10 Lawrence S. Coben (University of Pennsylvania) and Paul J. Boulifard (Drury University) Inkallacta- A Case Study in Digital Reconstruction and Virtual Reality

11:15-11:35 Gary Urton (Harvard University) The Puruchuco Khipu Archive

11:40-12:00 Paul R. Steele (University of Essex) European Space Versus Andean Time: The Colonial Origins of the Term Tahuantinsuyu.

12:05-12:25 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