South American Archaeology Seminar

Programme

9.30 am  Coffee/ Registration

• 10.00 Ayelen Delgado Orellana (UCL), The chilihueques of Southern Chile: Archaeological considerations in relation to the camelid domestication in the Araucania, Southern Chile 
• 10.35 David Beresford-Jones (Cambridge), Trajectories Towards Permanent Communities on the Pacific Coast of South America Between 12°S and 20°S:  New Perspectives on the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition 

11.10-11.40am Coffee

• 11.40: Sarah Martini (Yale University) & Dennis Nicolas Lorenzo (Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque), A View from the Border: New Excavations at Cerro La Plaza and Las Pampas de Panecillo, Department of Piura, Peru
• 12.15:  Andrés Troncoso (Universidad de Chile) A. Escudero, D. Pascual, F. Moya, F. Armstrong, M. Pino, P. Larach & R. Gutierrez:  Historical Landscape and Permanent Places of North-Central Chile Hunter-Gatherers (12,000 cal b.p. –500 cal b.p.) 

12.50-2pm Lunch

• 2.00:  Jo Osborn (University of Exeter), The Topará Tradition and the Paracas-Nasca Transition: New Chronological Perspectives from the Peruvian South Coast
• 2.35:  Jan Kłaput & Alexei Vranich (University of Warsaw), Jason Yaeger (University of Texas, San Antonio) Animal use in the Pumapunku Complex, Tiwanaku. Preliminary results of the zooarchaeological analysis

3.10-3.40pm Tea

• 3.40:  Eduardo Herrera Malatesta (Aarhus University) New Horizons: Assessing Previous Hypotheses of Carib and Arawak Migration from the Amazon to the Caribbean
• 4.15:  Jose Oliver (UCL) & Phil Riris (Bournemouth University) Monumental rock in the Middle and Upper Orinoco River

The programme and abstracts are available to download here

Attendees (including speakers) will be asked to pay £10.00 towards the cost of coffee, tea & lunch.  To book a place, please email:  andrea.carrasco.19@ucl.ac.uk

Image: courtesy of Sarah Martini, Yale University